The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

People are urged to BUIDL, pronounced “biddle,” a play on Bitcoin’s HODL meme. Godfrey was primarily at ETHDenver because he was curious about social impact DAOs, especially because they are “inherently a leaderless, egalitarian model.” A third said he didn’t think the gender ratio mattered. I asked how he liked the party.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

The news came in response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission which is trying to find ways to level the playing field between social platforms and news outlets. All told, the report spans more than 2,500 pieces of content, posted across seven languages and more than 300 different forums, websites, and social networks. “By

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

In its lunatic whipsawing between companies, issues, and conspiracy theories , Wednesday’s antitrust hearing resembled nothing so much as an endlessly scrolling social media feed. There are network effect around social products and a finite number of different social mechanics to invent. Greg Steube.). Polarized and polarizing.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Posts on pages flagged by Avaaz between May 28 and June 18 included explicit calls for armed violence as well as more borderline content such as anti-government memes employing euphemisms for violence. percent for YouTube and 76.6

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The Verge

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. Nick Statt / The Verge ).

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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. I’d still rather have a truly competitive domestic market for social apps than a monopolistic national champion waging battle on America’s behalf, though.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. Many powerful political actors — including the National Rifle Association — similarly operate with the aid of “social welfare” groups.

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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

JUNE 24, 2020

Despite this, Trump’s huge social media following almost guarantees any tweet will be widely seen on Twitter. 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. Facebook is appealing the decision.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

A social media advertising boycott that began with some outerwear brands picked up steam over the weekend, and has been joined by some of the giants of consumer brand advertising. Trump fans and conservative politicians are flocking to the social media app Parler. Microsoft did so quietly in May.) Tony Romm / The Washington Post ).

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The liberal Facebook page Occupy Democrats has emerged as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing meme factories on the platform. Democratic voters are tired of the Democratic Party kind of taking barrages from Republicans on the right on social media and Trump himself, taking that lying down and not fighting back,” Omar Rivero said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Adi Robertson picks up the story at The Verge : Social media sites are trying to stop the spread of Plandemic: Indoctornation , a follow-up to the Plandemic conspiracy video about the novel coronavirus. There’s still some possibility that Indoctornation will find new life on the social platforms. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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