The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

ByteDance is reportedly considering all manner of proposed solutions to keep TikTok alive around the world — it’s expected to generate $500 million in revenue this year , after all. The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web is calling for a new “social media standards board.” billion to fight California’s housing crisis.

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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

JULY 31, 2020

And most intriguingly, Mayer said TikTok would do something that lawmakers have often asked of other social networks, but so far none have even suggested they would consider: allowing regulators to inspect the company’s algorithms, which select which videos and accounts to promote throughout the app.

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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. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge. At a company with as many interests as Facebook has, different days call for different kinds of stories.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Facebook’s proposed solution to this is the Oversight Board , an independent group that will serve as a kind of Supreme Court for content moderation. Trending down: A Facebook executive told Politico that right-wing populism is always more engaging, which gives it an advantage on social networks. Emily Birnbaum / Protocol ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In the meantime, for reasons we covered here Monday , Trump is facing increasing pushback from Republican members on the deal as it is currently proposed. In 2019 he told Josh Constine he wanted to find “ the next wave ,” in a comment I took to mean that he had no plans to start another social network. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. It may go without saying, but Telepath is going well beyond the standard social network bans on hate speech and incitement to violence. And it’s just not worth doing it if it isn’t fun.”.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

TikTok suspended the account of Faizal Siddiqui for violating community guidelines when he hinted at promoting acid attacks on girls who reject marriage proposals. Silicon Valley’s new favorite app is an invite-only social network called Clubhouse. Instead it all just bleeds together into partisan noise.

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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.). The Stigler Center report provides examples of quids that larger platforms could offer to receive the quo of continued Section 230 immunity.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Facebook was founded, the idea of a truly global social network has seemed obvious — inevitable, even. China’s decision to ban American social networks clouded that vision, though, and in the years since the splintering of the internet has only accelerated. Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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. A] social network is supposed to be social. Versus just saying, “Look, be a 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. My thoughts on this subject track pretty closely with Ben Thompson, who called the proposed law a shakedown. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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? And it will be all over Twitter.

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