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. Reels allows users to create and post short, 15-second videos set to music or other audio, similar to TikTok. Prime Video is the latest streaming service to offer the feature.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

TikTok took down more than 49 million videos from users across the globe for content violations during the second half of 2019. Reddit moderators say the company finally appears to be listening to their calls for help fighting hate and harassment on the platform. It will be in Congress. Adi Robertson / The Verge ). Pizzi said.

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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

YouTube may have removed some of their videos after the change, but it doesn’t retroactively issue strikes, on fairness grounds. Reddit bans The_Donald. The practical effect of Reddit removing what was perhaps its most notorious forum is likely to be limited. And so it took a year for the white supremacists to strike out.

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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.) The move comes after Twitter added a “manipulated media” warning to one of his videos that Trump shared last week. This video gone end racism. Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere? percent for Twitter.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Let’s check in with Sarah Perez, writing last week at TechCrunch : A new study on kids’ app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube’s dominance, as kids now split their time between Google’s online video platform and other apps, like TikTok, Netflix and mobile games like Roblox. Lauren Kirchner / The Markup ). Industry. ?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Some of the videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views. (EJ People who’ve lost family members to the QAnon conspiracy theory are turning to Reddit to commiserate with other survivors. YouTube creator James Charles is teaching wannabe influencers how to film believable apology videos — a staple of YouTube culture.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The short-form video app says its adding 500,000 new users an hour and expects to have 100 million by month’s end. This article also suggests some of the videos might have been algorithmically promoted. Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. Saritha Rai / Bloomberg). Tanya Chen / BuzzFeed ).

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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

A TikTok copycat called Zynn is filled with videos that appear to be stolen from creators on other platforms. Influencers say videos they originally published to TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube were uploaded to Zynn without their consent. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. Things to do.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Facebook removed a video of the president’s remarks about North Carolina, citing its policies against voter fraud. A Facebook video of an assault led to the arrest of seven men after it was found by the victim’s mother. The video showed the men assaulted the 16-year-old while she was unconscious. Between March 1 and Aug.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Instead, by several measures, the situation for ByteDance’s popular video app got significantly worse. As recently as April, Zoom was caught rerouting external video calls through China , a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok. I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all.

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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. 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

And most intriguingly, Mayer said TikTok would do something that lawmakers have often asked of other social networks, but so far none have even suggested they would consider: allowing regulators to inspect the company’s algorithms, which select which videos and accounts to promote throughout the app. It’s hard to prove a negative.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

That could make TikTok more like Douyin, ByteDance’s TikTok-like Chinese-language video app, which already has e-commerce integrated into it. Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters. Election Integrity Partnership). Governing.

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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. It’s a new twist on video chat from a company called Teeoh.

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