The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Reddit has banned anti-vaccine and anti-mask subreddit r/NoNewNormal and has quarantined 54 other subreddits associated with COVID denial. A week ago, the company’s CEO said in a post that Reddit was meant to be a place of “open and authentic discussion and debate,” even for ideas that “question or disagree with popular consensus.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

On a Reddit thread, a number of 23andMe customers said they are having trouble actually deleting their data. Reddit user jacmrose complained, “tried canceling and never got the email they are supposed to send to confirm.” And they’re taking to social media to air their complaints.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

million people were confronted with this question, and 2.7 Versions of this question have been floating around Twitter and meme pages for years. million souls; the comedian Steve Harvey had tweeted the same question less than a week earlier. million of them replied. Maybe at this point you’re rolling your eyes.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2022

Let’s break it down Twitter has accepted a buyout offer from Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk, leading to a day of frenzied speculation over one question: how is Musk going to change Twitter? He’d probably urge moderators to hand down fewer bans and potentially leave questionable content up. Spam and scam bots.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

IP addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers provided are saved temporarily in order to send you a verification code and for anti-spam purposes," reads the Proton policy. To be clear, this is very different from logging a user's IP address whlie they're using the VPN service, which Proton VPN vows not to do.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Put simply, it's AI-generated SEO spam at its finest. one dispirited netizen exclaimed in a Reddit post. We reached out to Cunningham with a list of questions about his Pinterest strategy. We reached out to Pinterest with a list of questions about this story. I was looking for hair color inspo and it was all AI.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

Today, stock market manipulators use bot farms to amplify fake posts about hot stocks on Reddit, Discord, and X. They go to TikTok and Instagram and search for the question they want to answer. Software bots posted spam, also known as copypasta, which is a block of text that gets repeatedly copied and pasted.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) Six years ago, for example, Reddit’s laissez-faire attitude toward moderation led a lot of people to post stolen nude photos on the site without the subjects’ consent. Reddit issued such a statement last week.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

But there’s still the question of who will own TikTok, and today an odd new challenger appeared. Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters. America’s two hottest teen tech brands, Microsoft and Walmart, are teaming up for a bid.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

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