The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. Reddit added a new feature called Image Gallery that lets people combine multiples images or GIFs in a single post. After Wednesday’s catastrophe, it hardly seems like hyperbole to suggest that our world could hang in the balance. Tanya Chen / BuzzFeed ).

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Teens on TikTok have inherited the legacy of Weird Twitter and Weird Facebook , playfully posturing as retail stores and brands to create a subculture called Elite TikTok. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. It’s stuff you largely couldn’t do on Facebook. But you can do it if you are Facebook.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. Rascally TikTok teens are trying to pull one over on the president again. And we worry about where the extremists go when we knock them off Facebook. In the end, we needed a powerful, centralized gatekeeper to come in and be a chokepoint.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music. Two, TikTok keeps finding new users.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

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

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

A war has broken out on Reddit regarding how content is moderated. Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang at Bloomberg: The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. And it will be all over Twitter. Theodore Schleifer / Recode ).

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