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. Some are deleting their social media profiles entirely. Kim Lyons / The Verge ).

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

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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. Unsurprisingly, according to a National Research Group survey, liberals were far more likely to support Twitter, with conservatives more likely to oppose the decision.

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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

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. President Trump earlier this month gave the deal his preliminary blessing as a way to address his administration’s national security concerns. Emily Birnbaum / Protocol ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But with usage of social networks surging and an election on the horizon, the need for moderation had never been greater. Trending up : Facebook removed networks of accounts run from China that promoted and criticized both President Trump and Joe Biden. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

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. But the rules don’t apply when those lies are spread on a national scale. or “wow, we learned that that first version didn’t work. Marshall Cohen / CNN).

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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. Of teenagers who were affected, more than a quarter of the cases were intentional, the Washington Post reported at the time.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The United States is seeking to dismiss the charges it brought against two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national for allegedly helping the Saudi Arabian government spy on dissidents using Twitter. India has drawn up a list of 275 Chinese apps that it plans to examine for potential national security risks. Governing. ?

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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. Oracle’s bid for TikTok doesn’t solve the Trump administration’s national security concerns. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The Democratic and Republican national committees have now both told staffers not to install the app on their phones for fear that TikTok could be sending back unspecified data to the Chinese government. The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web is calling for a new “social media standards board.” What sort of data? The Hill ).

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The Verge

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.). TikTok and WeChat are being lumped together in the Trump’s administration’s attempt to crack down on national security threats from China.

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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. Suddenly that combination of scale and speed feels dangerous, in a concrete way. Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A letter sent to Trump on Wednesday by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and five other Republicans said the deal in its current reported form “leaves significant unresolved national security issues.”. Mark Zuckerberg outlined a new set of principles to guide employee debates within Workplace, Facebook’s internal social network.

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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. The company was previously found by the United Nations to have contributed to ethnic violence in the country by allowing hate speech to spread unchecked.

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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? Microsoft said.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

The policy is part of a package of bipartisan amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate is expected to vote on later this week. National security concerns about TikTok, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, have picked up steam amid fears that U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Over the coming days, as the National Guard is now deployed, probably the largest one that I would worry about would be excessive use of police or military force. What’s different about Monday’s walkout is that the protests were public first — and posted about on a rival social network, to boot. Andy Greenberg / Wired ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

in 2018, “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States,” Mr. Trump wrote in an executive order issued at 7:45 p.m. When Facebook was founded, the idea of a truly global social network has seemed obvious — inevitable, even. How do we feel about this? Will Oremus / OneZero ). Industry. ?

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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. TikTok signed a multi-year licensing agreement with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). But they may be a start.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We had leadership with the National Basketball Players Association, the NBPA. 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. We had leadership with Adam Silver.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Reuters reported that one email said Texans “‘are put at risk’ by the company, ‘whose executives clearly display anti-conservative and anti-Republican bias, subtly controlling what Americans see when they search for information about national political issues.’”. Instead it all just bleeds together into partisan noise.

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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. Perhaps you’ve heard of ByteDance? As for China?

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The Verge

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. Is it national unity? One-party rule?

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