The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Facebook’s constrained reading of its policies was both astounding and deeply troubling for the precedents it seemed to set,” the report stated. But it also seems notable that even a multi-year audit resulting in a report that runs to nearly 100 pages can’t even attempt to consider the problem in a holistic way. It will be in Congress.

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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

JULY 1, 2020

Reddit bans The_Donald. The practical effect of Reddit removing what was perhaps its most notorious forum is likely to be limited. Its membership, which once numbered more than 800,000, had largely decamped to another website after Reddit placed The_Donald behind a warning screen last year.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.)

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

That has created an opening for its rivals, including Shopify, Target, and Costco, which have all grown faster in the past two months than Amazon has, according to a separate report in Bloomberg last week. Reported cases in California: 71,171. Reported cases in New York: 343,705. Reported cases in New Jersey: 140,743.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The latter app also drove growth in kids’ social app use by 100% in 2019 and 200% in 2020, the report found. And to that last point, PingWest reported this week that ByteDance will begin restricting the access Chinese engineers have to TikTok’s code base. So basically, before TikTok, kids used social apps a certain amount.

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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 15, 2020

At Vice , Joseph Cox, one of the best security reporters I know, reported that members of the underground hacking community are sharing screenshots suggesting someone gained access to an internal Twitter tool used for account management. A report on that subject from King’s College London came out just last week.).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Facebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days leading up to the US election , Kurt Wagner reports at Bloomberg. At that point Clubhouse had no in-app mechanisms for reporting harassment, and its community guidelines were little more than legal boilerplate. I only have 3 million on Instagram and 500,000 on YouTube.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

When reporters printed out copies of the tweets to ask for comment, they still managed to avoid it. Amazon recently invited reporters into a fulfillment center in Washington to see its improved safety measures. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. It’s stuff you largely couldn’t do on Facebook.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Specifics on the demographic that most people care about — the gender ratio — can be hard to track down. Sanders told us that "there's a two to one ratio of single men versus categories like single women, couples, and groups." However, some Reddit members have praised AFF as a site for men meeting men. 10 years ago.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

On consumer Facebook, the post would have stayed up even if it had been reported. But because of their perceived power, the platforms are under strong pressure to take decisive action in response. If left unchecked, the post threatened to undermine faith in company leadership. But on enterprise Facebook, the post occasioned some reflection.

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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. The app, which like Clubhouse is available only in private beta and requires an invitation to use, resembles a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit. Thanks again for the readers who made this story possible.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump , Reddit banned The_Donald , YouTube banned a group of far-right creators , and India banned TikTok. Reddit banned more than 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse, as part of a major expansion of its content policy targeting hate speech.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

The reported valuation of the app — $50 billion — is stratospheric, at 50 times its projected earnings. We’re a day out from the antitrust event of the summer , and I’m still catching up on all the reporting and commentary that has come out since. But “legitimate researchers and the people coming in will know that it’s real.”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters. says it encourages employees to report concerns and that OSHA has found no wrongdoing on its part. Perhaps one of the companies now circling it can replicate them eventually. Governing.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Reported cases in California: 100,371.

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