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How bogus stories about Amazon laying off 14,000 managers spread like wildfire across the internet

Fast Company Tech

Not only that, it seems to have been essentially conjured up out of nowhere, before being picked up by a stream of headlines on Google News, viral Reddit threads , and would-be LinkedIn influencers dissecting it as if it were fact. But that figure is untrue. There are a number of ways to achieve that increase without eliminating roles.

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How Twitter is shifting the power balance from companies to their employees

The Verge

Reddit communities that were recently banned in an effort to curb hate speech on the platform had already been relocating to other websites for months. A Nigerian Instagram influencer was extradited to the US from Dubai to face fraud charges. Coming Tuesday : The Verge brings you further inside Clubhouse. Bobby Allyn / NPR).

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What a damning civil rights audit missed about Facebook

The Verge

Reddit moderators say the company finally appears to be listening to their calls for help fighting hate and harassment on the platform. In some houses, each influencer has their own separate management team and sometimes different agents. It will be in Congress. Annie Gilbertson / The Markup ).

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Leaving content moderation to volunteers is empowering racists

The Verge

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) Six years ago, for example, Reddit’s laissez-faire attitude toward moderation led a lot of people to post stolen nude photos on the site without the subjects’ consent. Reddit issued such a statement last week.

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How Amazon is growing its power during the pandemic

The Verge

People who’ve lost family members to the QAnon conspiracy theory are turning to Reddit to commiserate with other survivors. YouTube creator James Charles is teaching wannabe influencers how to film believable apology videos — a staple of YouTube culture. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one.

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TikTok is having a monster 2020

The Verge

Last month it hired the prominent executive Kevin Mayer away from Disney to be TikTok’s CEO, giving ByteDance a face of the American business establishment to go before Congress and ask questions about how the Communist Party of China might plan to use TikTok as part of an influence campaign.

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

We have seen Reddit ignore its most racist forums until they spun out into thriving standalone communities. Notably, Reddit banned QAnon forums starting in 2018 — long before it even banned hate speech — after the forums were found to be inciting violence. But in 2020 we know what happens when you let a movement fester.

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