The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Reddit communities that were recently banned in an effort to curb hate speech on the platform had already been relocating to other websites for months. Prime Video is the latest streaming service to offer the feature. Host a charity stream. Coming Tuesday : The Verge brings you further inside Clubhouse. Bobby Allyn / NPR).

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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

MAY 14, 2020

We finally have numbers to back up the wild view counts we’ve seen in live-streaming since the COVID-19 pandemic began — and they’re huge. People who’ve lost family members to the QAnon conspiracy theory are turning to Reddit to commiserate with other survivors. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one.

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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. Netflix is streaming the entirety of Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated film about mass incarceration for free on YouTube. Jon Porter / The Verge ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

We have seen Reddit ignore its most racist forums until they spun out into thriving standalone communities. Notably, Reddit banned QAnon forums starting in 2018 — long before it even banned hate speech — after the forums were found to be inciting violence. But in 2020 we know what happens when you let a movement fester.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. The president was prevented from streaming after airing an old rally in which he called Mexican immigrants criminals and “rapists.” And we worry about where the extremists go when we knock them off Facebook. billion to fight California’s housing crisis.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Facebook’s streaming platform, Facebook Watch, has reached 1.25 Between March 1 and Aug. 1, Twitter practiced its response to scenarios including foreign interference, leaks of hacked materials and uncertainty following Election Day. I have no doubt it will make Facebook a better place to work. Adi Robertson / The Verge ). Which, come on.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The app, which like Clubhouse is available only in private beta and requires an invitation to use, resembles a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit. And as on Reddit, every post must be created within a group, which Telepath calls a “network.”. But Reddit can’t explain why. 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. One of the streams in question was a rebroadcast of Trump’s infamous 2015 kickoff rally, where he said that Mexico was sending rapists to the United States.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

But Amazon’s monopoly ensures there’s an endless stream of people willing to try. Black Reddit moderators say hate speech and abuse are the norm. Some writers thought a smart take about the hearing would sound something like: “who cares, this won’t change anything.” Targeted shutdowns have been used in recent months to silence dissent.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

But the TikTok challenge promises to be much harder — the company will have to somehow recreate ByteDance’s powerful algorithmic feed , design a steady stream of new features and experiences to keep influencers engaged, and fend off fierce competition from Facebook, Snapchat, and a host of TikTok clones along the way. Governing. ?

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