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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 ).
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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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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