The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The story, by Maxwell Tani and Spencer Ackerman, recounts a controversy that broke out inside the company when one of its 50,000 employees posted a short essay to its internal Workplace forum titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” But on enterprise Facebook, the post occasioned some reflection.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

But the ham-fisted approach to resolving the issue — banning a huge portion of 359,000 verified accounts — reflects the staggering scale of the breach. The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Facebook released a 29-page white paper calling privacy practices and laws “insufficient.” Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Romm, American Edge is set up to ”navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors.”. Might that mislead people about the identity, purpose, or origin of the entity that American Edge represents?

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

And others that have since been walked back enforced oppressive beauty standards, reflected class bias, restricted political speech, or otherwise made the app hostile to various groups. Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

And censorship on the app still appears to reflect a Chinese worldview far more than it reflects an American one; only recently did the app’s censors begin allowing people with large tattoos , and what the company said was a bug temporarily appeared to hide content related to Black Lives Matter. Stylistically, they’re laws.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

As part of that announcement, he wrote an unusually personal blog post in which he reflected on his privilege and advocated for reparations for black folks. The move comes as the company faces scrutiny over its role as a platform for racial profiling and its increasingly cozy partnerships with law enforcement.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

To leave it up would reflect poorly on the moral character of everyone who works at the company, especially its top executives. Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. Law enforcement eventually will? Trump added.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Look close enough at any system of law or content moderation and it can start to feel arbitrary, but Apple’s has proven to be particularly vulnerable to criticisms. of a prominent talent management company for streamers and a moment of reflection for an industry that has often contended with sexism, bullying and allegations of abuse.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The co-founders of Telepath are both white men; will their standard of reasonableness reflect the larger community’s? He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked. Dan Primack / Axios ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

He wrote in a letter to employees: In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for. Whatever the answer is, Mayer said the hell with it. David McLaughlin / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And Trump’s flouting of the rule of law , however often we have seen it in these past four years, suggests even darker developments to come. The changes were subtle, like changing “Q” to “Cue” or to a name including the number 17, reflecting that Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet. Trending up : Facebook says it’s helped 2.5

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

On Sunday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sent employees an unusually personal note reflecting on the events of the past several weeks. But few CEOs took the step, as Spiegel did, of reflecting on his own privilege — and then calling for reparations for black folks. In reality, there are a mere 116,394. Sorry for the mistake!

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Ultimately, Hegeman said , reach data better reflects how Facebook builds its algorithms (solidly in the mainstream) while engagement data better reflects user behavior (frothing-at-the-mouth partisan). or share other kinds of data it thinks better reflects what’s popular on Facebook.”. I don’t want to keep doing this!)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A combination of algorithms and our curation team determine if a Tweet represents a trend by evaluating if the Tweet is very reflective of the trend and popular. Facebook said it would block users from sharing news stories on its platforms if the law moves forward. Facebook has about 15,000 third-party moderators, not 30,000.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. Is that just a direct reflection of your feeling that way? As a matter of fact, you might ignore them more and it gets worse.

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