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TikTok’s success has made it a big target for regulators

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Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Industry. ?

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Half of all Facebook moderators may develop mental health issues

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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. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Reported cases in New York: 342,267.

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Nine things we learned from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg facing his employees

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The pessimists argue that social networks are getting played by bad actors who have gamed it to re-enforce and worsen existing power imbalances. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Reported cases in New York: 377,881. Reported cases in New Jersey: 161,545.

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What other social networks can learn from Snapchat’s rebuke of Trump

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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. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ??Trending Reported cases in New York: 378,924.

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

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What’s different about Monday’s walkout is that the protests were public first — and posted about on a rival social network, to boot. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Reported cases in New York: 376,520. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 2,063,825.

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Why Twitter labeling Trump?s tweets as ?potentially misleading? is a big step forward

The Verge

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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Why Twitter labeled Trump?s tweets as misleading and Facebook didn?t

The Verge

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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