Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Walt Disneys new headquarters in New York is like a city contained within a single block. Today Disneys work includes studio films and theme parks, but also broadcast news, radio, podcasts, streaming, digital media, and magazines. By the end of this summer, around 5,000 people will work from within the stately 1.2-million-square-foot

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In 2019, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released research that revealed the impact of race and racism in the workplace. In fact, this 2-to-1 ratio holds in practically every state in the nation where Black workers make up a significant share of the workforce. That year was a hot labor market, and the U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

The executives were briefing me and some other reporters about a significant expansion of the site’s content moderation policies, which were unveiled on Monday and resulted in the removal of 2,000 subreddits , including the notorious forum for hate speech The_Donald. Policy updates and product improvements are great. million in 2021.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

On its face, Apple’s policy enforcement here feels arbitrary and capricious — and, I suspect, it may become part of the antitrust investigations now underway against the company. There’s zero impetus on Apple to lower prices, stop being abusive, or even enforce their own policies with any sense of consistency or justice.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. 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. Benedict Carey / The New York Times). Popular Information ). Sara Fischer / Axios ).

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

TikTok, on the other hand, took the opposite approach: censor almost everything, and allow new types of content only after angry public pressure campaigns. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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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

MAY 13, 2020

Where ever-shifting content policies, and demands for near-perfect accuracy, could make the job itself impossible. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up: Instagram is launching new features aimed at making the platform a more positive space. Reported cases in New York: 342,267.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Around that time, I predicted that by July or August, Trump would post something else that clearly violated Facebook’s policies and had to be removed. Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol,” said Facebook’s Andy Stone in a statement.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

That’s one reason I suspect Basecamp’s public protest of Apple and its App Store policies has gotten so much traction. Basecamp, you will remember, is a mid-sized 16-year-old company that makes project management software, and a week ago it introduced a new email service called Hey. Facebook promoted tips to help users spot fake news.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Crystal Watson, a health-policy expert at Johns Hopkins, who co-authored a report in April on contact tracing, told me that these numbers were better than she had expected. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? David McCabe / The New York Times ). Annie Palmer / CNBC).

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions. He told employees on Tuesday : Over time in general, we just we tend to add more policies to restrict things more and more. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ??

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

This gap between our content policy and our values has eroded our effectiveness in combating hate and racism on Reddit; I accept full responsibility for this. [.]. Carman writes: Boss-Moms is one of many Facebook groups grappling with inadequate moderation policies as members attempt to discuss Black Lives Matter. The Ratio. ??

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Facebook told me that it is taking a fresh look at its policies related to Boogaloo and that those policies would likely evolve to include additional enforcement. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Tiffany Hsu / The New York Times ). Kashmir Hill / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

As Julia Alexander explained at The Verge , the bans were made possible by an update to its policies in June 2019 disallowing hate speech. Why did it take a full year to enforce this policy? Huffman also gave a thoughtful interview to Kevin Roose at the New York Times. Hernández / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

from what our policy is and the principles of the platform we’re running are — knowing that the decision that we made was going to lead to a lot of people being very upset inside the company and a lot of the media criticism we’re going to get,” said Zuckerberg. But “I knew that I needed to separate out my personal opinion.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

has imported roughly twice as much power from Canada as it exports there, though that ratio has started to shift in recent years as climate change-driven drought has slowed the output of hydroelectricity in provinces like Quebec and Ontario. Minnesota , Michigan , and New York all aim to achieve clean electricity grids by 2040.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Here’s Olivia Solon at NBC News : A group of about 25 experts from academia, civil rights, politics and journalism announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook’s content moderation decisions, policies and other platform issues in the run-up to the presidential election and beyond.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

In an open letter posted by Brian Huseman, Amazon’s VP of public policy, the company highlights its own ongoing efforts to try to crack down on price gouging. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. For weeks, Sen.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

President Trump pronounced the agreement a success and blessed it,” the New York Times noted , “saying on Saturday that TikTok would ‘have nothing to do with China, it’ll be totally secure, that’s part of the deal.’”. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. does not seem like a bad bet?”.

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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. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Data from The New York Times. Let us know! (We Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

But there’s reason to believe the case against Google will land the soonest of any of them — in May, the New York Times reported that charges could come “ as early as this summer.”. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Makena Kelly caught a key exchange at The Verge : Amazon has a policy barring the practice, but lawmakers like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) focused in on the company’s enforcement of that policy. Bezos highlighted the company’s policy banning the practice, but said, “I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated.”

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

Since April to June we removed more than 7 million pieces of content on Facebook and Instagram for violating our policy against sharing harmful COVID-19 misinformation.”. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. On the other hand, that hearing was not about antitrust! Naomi Nix / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Enforcement of those misinformation policies has sometimes lagged behind the companies’ public statements, though. And when it did — under the hilariously bad name Plandemic: Indoctornation — the New York Times’ Davey Alba helpfully chronicled the various pieces of misinformation it contains.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

One company where those discussions were particularly vigorous was Facebook, a platform that showcased the protests and the violence that led up to them — and, some employees argued, had empowered white supremacy and other forms of hate speech through a combination of content policies and moderation decisions. Product, policy, everything.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Facebook also took down thousands of accounts, pages and groups as part of what they called a “policy expansion,” seeking to limit violent rhetoric tied to QAnon, political militias and protest groups like antifa. But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

This policy has created some controversy over the years, since it makes life harder for some activists, and crime victims, and (most famously) drag queens. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Tiffany Hsu and Cecilia Kang / The New York Times ). Artist: William Joel.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Under a second, platforms would disclose data on what content is being promoted and to whom, on the process and policies of content moderation, and on advertising practices. David McCabe / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And the various policies announced to remove or label problematic posts could inject a welcome dose of reality into the more unhinged conspiracy theories about the election that are now swirling in the fever swamps. At the same time, as Steve Kovach notes at CNBC, the policies announced Thursday have some obvious limitations.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

In the New York Times , Taylor Lorenz finds young people worried about losing a key outlet for creative freedom during months of quarantine — and also, for some number of them, their livelihoods. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? David McCabe / New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

The New York Times ’ Kevin Roose does a regular bit on Twitter where he posts the day’s top Facebook posts with links, and the results often skew heavily toward the conservative side. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Cecilia Kang / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And, thanks to journalists at the New York Times , we have perhaps the most delicious morsel of reporting to ever emerge from TikTok deal talks. And if you don’t like what you hear, there’s still a good chance the news will leak and you can send a shiver up the spine of every person you used to work with in Menlo Park.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Here’s Kate Conger and Nicole Perlroth today in the New York Times : In February, Russian trolls fueled an American-made conspiracy theory that former members of Hillary Clinton’s staff were rigging the Iowa caucuses, and helped push the baseless theory to the top of Twitter’s trending list. Nathaniel Popper / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post , “but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies.”. This has been personally pretty wrenching for me.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This is a policy written by people who have argued online, and who want to create a place where those arguments are productive. But as I like to say, policy is what you enforce. But I really couldn’t be more impressed with the approach this small team is taking to building trust and safety policies so early in its existence.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

One of the journalists who took notice of CrowdTangle’s abilities was Kevin Roose, a columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. Note that CrowdTangle measures only interactions on posts from publisher pages — if someone shares a New York Times link to their own page, it doesn’t get counted. Governing. ?

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