The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Adding millions of users has served as a vindication for a company that has sought to build a healthier internet by adopting different incentives than most Silicon Valley companies. We’re organized as a nonprofit because we feel like the way the internet currently works is insane,” CEO Moxie Marlinspike told me.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But given Facebook’s key role in civic discourse — it effectively replaces the internet in some countries — the disparities are cause for concern. Among the disparities: Facebook lacked misinformation classifiers in Myanmar, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, countries designated at highest risk last year.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A similar dynamic is playing out on the neighborhood social network NextDoor, where a let-the-users-do-it approach to moderation has left many black users feeling fearing for their safety. Aviv Ovadya did ; he has a nice list of problems he faced as a groups admin here.). Pranav Dixit and Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Of teenagers who were affected, more than a quarter of the cases were intentional, the Washington Post reported at the time.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Then, Trump quickly threatened Twitter with revenge by signing a scorched-earth executive order that would blow up the entire internet. Republicans who recently warned of a “government takeover of the internet” are now staging one in reverse — trying to turn the internet into the government. Executives reportedly ignored it.)

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To tech determinists, who believe that social networks uniquely enabled Trump’s rise and were among the primary sources of his power, the past 11 months offered us an imperfect test of that hypothesis. A SPAC deal, which has promised to create some sort of Trump-centric media company and social network, is also now underway.

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