The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. tattoos? “In That was unequivocally the wrong approach.”.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

The bad news is that the entire tech-and-democracy world will now be sitting around for another two days twiddling our thumbs while we wait for the social networking event of the summer. David Uberti / The Wall Street Journal ). Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ). But they may be a start. Where I worked for him!

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And then social networks came along, and the calculus changed. But buy an ad on a social network and its reach is potentially infinite — and it can acquire massive scale in an incredibly short period of time. Here’s Bolton in the Wall Street Journal : Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Directed by Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma explores the effect of smartphones and social networks on human behavior. I started writing this newsletter in 2017 after coming to the belated realization that social networks really did have an outsized impact on modern life, and deserved to be taken as seriously.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

From time to time a really bad post on a social network gets a lot of attention. Say a head of state falsely accuses a journalist of murder , or suggests that mail-in voting is illegal — those would be pretty bad posts, I think, and most people working inside and outside of the social network could probably agree on that.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. McKinnon and Ryan Tracy / The Wall Street Journal ). Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge. Brent Kendall, John D.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. She published a comprehensive account of the board’s creation today in the Yale Law Journal.

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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. Aaron Tilley and Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ). Ann-Marie Alcántara / The Wall Street Journal ).

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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. The Ratio. ?? Hobbs and Lee Hawkins / Wall Street Journal ). As a result, offline injustices are being replicated in online speech.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Here’s Olivia Solon at NBC News : A group of about 25 experts from academia, civil rights, politics and journalism announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook’s content moderation decisions, policies and other platform issues in the run-up to the presidential election and beyond.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Social platforms, for better and for worse, offer only the president’s words. I can’t see a good reason, in most cases, for a big social network to deny the president his right to speak. Jeff Horwitz / The Wall Street Journal ). This led some of you to believe there were upwards of 2 million COVID cases in the state.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Facebook suffered a setback in a key challenge to its advertising model, as Germany’s highest civil court said that it has “no doubt” the social network misuses its dominant market position. Rolfe Winkler and Patience Haggin / The Wall Street Journal ). Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

But on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a lawsuit may be arriving shortly. The Journal wasn’t able to learn the lawyers’ theory of the case. Kendall and Keach Hagey wrote about it in the Journal on Monday : “There is significant reason for concern that Google has violated U.S. The Journal offers 20 ways.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? And finally.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

What’s different about Monday’s walkout is that the protests were public first — and posted about on a rival social network, to boot. Social media is being used to galvanize protestors. Needleman and Sebastian Herrera / The Wall Street Journal ). Walkout organizers are developing a list of demands for the company.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. It may go without saying, but Telepath is going well beyond the standard social network bans on hate speech and incitement to violence. And it’s just not worth doing it if it isn’t fun.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The pessimists argue that social networks are getting played by bad actors who have gamed it to re-enforce and worsen existing power imbalances. Mike Cherney / The Wall Street Journal ). Zuckerberg, in this framing, is an optimist. The optimist may have the time and privilege to wait out any civil unrest. The pessimist may not.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. How exactly? or “wow, we learned that that first version didn’t work.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Columbia Journalism Review is doing a series of interviews with organizers of the Facebook ad boycott. Columbia Journalism Review). There will never be a single answer to the question of what people should see when they open Facebook. But given the power of the platform, it seems more than fair to ask what they are seeing.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

An executive order like this had first been proposed last August , after the White House invited ordinary Americans to share stories about times when they felt they had been unfairly censored by social networks. That has led an increasing number of conservatives to sue social networks alleging infringements on their rights.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission, for one, is preparing to depose Mr. Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives in its 13-month probe of the social network. Here’s Euirim Choi at The Wall Street Journal: The Instagram overtures to creators are the latest in a continuing back-and-forth between the two social-media giants.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Facebook was founded, the idea of a truly global social network has seemed obvious — inevitable, even. China’s decision to ban American social networks clouded that vision, though, and in the years since the splintering of the internet has only accelerated. Newley Purnell and Jeff Horwitz / The Wall Street Journal ).

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Finally, if you break us up, a giant technology company from China will likely emerge as the world’s dominant social network, creating a beachhead for the expansion of Chinese soft power — and, along with it, censorship and authoritarianism. Suzanne Vranica / The Wall Street Journal ). Perhaps you’ve heard of ByteDance?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook has about 15,000 third-party moderators, not 30,000. Sorry for the errors. Gilad Edelman / Wired ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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