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

The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.) Trending up : A new report from the European Commission shows Facebook assessed 95.7 Trending down : Facebook has reportedly created a fact-checking loophole for climate science deniers. percent for YouTube and 76.6

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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. Trending up: Both Twitter and Square are making Juneteenth a permanent company holiday. Chris Welch / The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Trending down : TikTok is full of dangerous coronavirus conspiracy theories despite the company’s pledge to curb misinformation on the platform. 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

JULY 15, 2020

Trending down : A new lawsuit against Google alleges the company tracks user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, even after people opt out of sharing information. Reddit added a new feature called Image Gallery that lets people combine multiples images or GIFs in a single post. Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET).

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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

JUNE 11, 2020

Trending up : Twitter announced that it will begin testing a new feature that will suggest users actually read articles before they retweet them. Trending up : Twitter announced that it will begin testing a new feature that will suggest users actually read articles before they retweet them. 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. Trending up : Apple has allocated $400 million of a planned $2.5 Trending sideways. 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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Trending up : Google released a dataset of search trends for researchers to study the link between symptom-related searches and the spread of COVID-19. Trending up : Pinterest announced it will no longer show ads to users when they search for elections-related terms on the platform. Between March 1 and Aug.

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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. Trending down : Amazon warehouse workers went on strike in Germany after staff at several logistics centers tested positive for the coronavirus. Sam Shead / CNBC).

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Trending up : Twitter is supporting a campaign aimed at stopping internet shutdowns. Trending down : The fees that Amazon imposes on sellers make it nearly impossible for them to sustain a profitable business, according to a report from the Institute of Local Self-Reliance. Ina Fried / Axios ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Trending up: Twitter will now hide tweets containing text that has been copy and pasted without any modifications from the source. Shubham Agarwal / Digital Trends ). ?? Trending down: Twitter needs to act much faster to take action on tweets that spread false information about the election. Election Integrity Partnership).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Trending sideways : YouTube began fixing an error in its moderation system that caused comments containing certain Chinese-language phrases critical of China’s Communist Party to be automatically deleted. A war has broken out on Reddit regarding how content is moderated. And it will be all over Twitter. James Vincent / The Verge ).

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