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JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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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. Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent.

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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. I find it heartening that Apple is moving down this path, even if took Basecamp dragging them there. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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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. ?? Aviv Ovadya did ; he has a nice list of problems he faced as a groups admin here.).

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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. In a censorship case filed against YouTube by LGBTQ content creators, the US Justice Department is defending Section 230 — the law that protects internet companies from lawsuits.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Trending down: A Facebook executive told Politico that right-wing populism is always more engaging, which gives it an advantage on social networks. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But with usage of social networks surging and an election on the horizon, the need for moderation had never been greater. The law firm involved in the suit was also part of a similar suit against Facebook, Wong reported. And so Silicon Valley largely shifted moderation duties to automated systems.

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JULY 15, 2020

It’s a step necessary to confronting an ideological war that has been under way for 20 years now, he argues: TikTok’s algorithm, unmoored from the constraints of your social network or professional content creators, is free to promote whatever videos it likes, without anyone knowing the difference. Browse the Atlas of Surveillance.

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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. Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge. Amir Efrati / The Information ).

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JULY 17, 2020

An advertiser boycott of Facebook and other social networks this month , along with a difficult civil rights audit of the company , have brought further scrutiny to the issue. All of which made the publication of Facebook’s annual diversity report this week especially fraught. or “wow, we learned that that first version didn’t work.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, they introduced something called “the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act” on Tuesday , the point of which seems to be to stop social networks from doing so much moderating.). Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle.

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JULY 14, 2020

Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web is calling for a new “social media standards board.” Marc Ginsberg says social networks should lose Section 230 immunity if they fail to comply with its regulations. (

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In 2019 he told Josh Constine he wanted to find “ the next wave ,” in a comment I took to mean that he had no plans to start another social network. Facebook critics say Mark Zuckerberg’s commitment to his company’s growth has led to an alliance of convenience between the world’s largest social network and the White House.

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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. Facebook said it would block users from sharing news stories on its platforms if the law moves forward. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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. The publicly posted sentiments have drawn renewed scrutiny to the companies’ close ties to law enforcement. Sorry for the mistake!

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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? Industry. ?

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JULY 22, 2020

I wish more people understood how much fun you can have while socially distancing.”. zoomers in march: covid is boomer remover llol boomers in august: school time :) :) :) — law dog, esq. There will never be a single answer to the question of what people should see when they open Facebook. Those good tweets.

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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. Authorities and law enforcement officials are helping to push a narrative that outside groups were responsible for inciting violent confrontations at the protests over the weekend.

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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. In some cases, Google didn’t ban the users they reported.

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MAY 29, 2020

That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. 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.

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MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Here’s how Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

And most intriguingly, Mayer said TikTok would do something that lawmakers have often asked of other social networks, but so far none have even suggested they would consider: allowing regulators to inspect the company’s algorithms, which select which videos and accounts to promote throughout the app. Institute for Local Self-Reliance).

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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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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. Indeed it was, but only for two days: the hearing will now take place on Wednesday , and you can stream it here. But they may be a start.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I know you’re very critical of Facebook and the other social networks. But I mean, during this interminable election week, we’ve seen the major social networks, to varying degrees, get more aggressive. A] social network is supposed to be social. Versus just saying, “Look, be a social network.

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MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Late in the day, there was word of a forthcoming executive order , with no other details.

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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. Perhaps you’ve heard of ByteDance? Here’s hoping we get an answer to that one, and soon.

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