The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Should Reddit pay its volunteer moderators? Reddit’s content moderation scheme differs sharply from the Facebook News Feed or the Twitter timeline. But the moderators themselves often become collateral damage, Reddit executives said. “To If that’s the case, isn’t the least Reddit could do to pay these moderators?

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

This trend has only accelerated since the Black Lives Matters protests swept the nation last month — which, among other things, led to the first-ever virtual Facebook walkout a few weeks later. Trending up : Facebook pinned a box with information about voter registration on the top of the News Feed for every US user who is of voting age.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. Trending up : Apple has allocated $400 million of a planned $2.5 Trending sideways. Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. Stylistically, they’re laws.

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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.”. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. Can you imagine?! Makena Kelly / The Verge).

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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.” Between March 1 and Aug. My heart goes out to the Blake family,” the staffer wrote on Friday. “It

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Trending down : A new lawsuit against Google alleges the company tracks user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, even after people opt out of sharing information. The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Facebook released a 29-page white paper calling privacy practices and laws “insufficient.”

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

passed its sell-or-ban law last year due to security concerns. Interest is high for the popular short-form video platform and includes heavy hitters like Oracle, Mr. Beast, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, Microsoft, and Project Liberty, a group led by former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

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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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Also: more than 650 subreddits have now signed on to this open letter to Reddit calling for the company to, among other things, enact a site-wide policy against racism and hate speech. Trending up: Both Twitter and Square are making Juneteenth a permanent company holiday. Chris Welch / The Verge ). Ali Breland / Mother Jones ).

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Trending up : Twitter is supporting a campaign aimed at stopping internet shutdowns. Trending down : The fees that Amazon imposes on sellers make it nearly impossible for them to sustain a profitable business, according to a report from the Institute of Local Self-Reliance. Institute for Local Self-Reliance). Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. Reddit bans The_Donald. The practical effect of Reddit removing what was perhaps its most notorious forum is likely to be limited. The way out, for us, has been through our mission: What are we trying to accomplish on Reddit?

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

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. The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.)

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump , Reddit banned The_Donald , YouTube banned a group of far-right creators , and India banned TikTok. Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. WearAMask pic.twitter.com/LknwwdYmvF — BLM || Law??

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Trending up: Twitter will now hide tweets containing text that has been copy and pasted without any modifications from the source. Shubham Agarwal / Digital Trends ). ?? Trending down: Twitter needs to act much faster to take action on tweets that spread false information about the election. Election Integrity Partnership).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump. Trending sideways : YouTube began fixing an error in its moderation system that caused comments containing certain Chinese-language phrases critical of China’s Communist Party to be automatically deleted.

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