The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Reddit community r/WallStreetBets has turned to Discord in recent weeks to organize and communicate in real time, as it seeks to force hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling retail companies like GameStop and AMC. It’s a hugely popular app, with more than 100 million monthly active users. audio meme.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

However, posts on Reddit (via Android Central and Phone Arena ) and Google’s support forums describe issues where some incoming calls seem to be silently rejected, sending the caller directly to voicemail. Now some Pixel owners report that their phones are failing to complete a fairly basic task — ringing when there’s an incoming call.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

The startup has already had to battle spam, and it's just now starting to ramp up hiring for its trust and safety team. It plans to give group moderators adjustable tools for proactively weeding out bad messages through Hive, an automated content moderation platform that Reddit also uses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In the lead-up to the court hearing the case, a host of amicus briefs emphasized its far-reaching implications: from nonprofits ( Wikimedia Foundation ) to community content moderation ( Reddit and Reddit moderators ) and small businesses and startups ( Engine ).

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

Much of that volume is likely spam and promotional messages, but SMS is also the default texting method for a lot of Android phones, or used when someone on iMessage texts with an Android device. “But there is a real gap in how much people are using services with end-to-end encryption in the US compared to everywhere else in the world.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

On the record, Apple would only provide this statement for our story: “We designed and built the App Store to be a safe and trusted place for our users, and are constantly improving our processes to reduce fraud, malware and spam.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

It more or less goes on like this for the rest of the top 20: lots of viral questions stolen from Reddit, Quora, Twitter or other sites, rewarded with huge engagement on Facebook. Ever since Facebook’s report came out, commentators have noted the large number of spam networks present in the list of most viewed links.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Elon Musk wants Twitter workers in the office and wants them battling spam. Mute fast, mute often : Reddit users who don’t want to see a certain community can now mute it. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc. Aisha has more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Reddit has banned anti-vaccine and anti-mask subreddit r/NoNewNormal and has quarantined 54 other subreddits associated with COVID denial. A week ago, the company’s CEO said in a post that Reddit was meant to be a place of “open and authentic discussion and debate,” even for ideas that “question or disagree with popular consensus.”

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 9, 2025

The social media and bookmarking platform was one of the most popular websites around in 2006, before the boom of platforms like Reddit , YouTube , Facebook , and Instagram helped to usher in its obsolescence. People stopped using Digg, went all in on Reddit, and here we are. Do you remember Digg? I'm all in on this chapter."

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

On a Reddit thread, a number of 23andMe customers said they are having trouble actually deleting their data. Reddit user jacmrose complained, “tried canceling and never got the email they are supposed to send to confirm.” And they’re taking to social media to air their complaints.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Put simply, it's AI-generated SEO spam at its finest. one dispirited netizen exclaimed in a Reddit post. Instead, a scroll through Recipes Time reveals an expansive catalog of AI-generated articles spanning Pinterest-favorite categories, packed with images that appear to be expressly designed for algorithmic success on the platform.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It's obnoxious and it's just spam now," read a top comment under the Reddit discussion. Some are from corporate accounts or advertised posts, which seem like natural places to spam comments. It's so pervasive that some people wonder if it's bot activity, which feels likely.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2022

I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.”. Spam and scam bots. Musk has indicated that “spam and scam bots” and “bot armies” are Twitter’s new Public Enemy No.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Cybersecurity experts say that Musk’s idea to make Twitter’s tech open-source could make it more susceptible to attacks, though his ideas for going after spam bots may lead to better detection — and perhaps a reduction of followers for many people wondering about that blank egghead following them. billion fund on his birthday.

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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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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

IP addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers provided are saved temporarily in order to send you a verification code and for anti-spam purposes," reads the Proton policy. To be clear, this is very different from logging a user's IP address whlie they're using the VPN service, which Proton VPN vows not to do.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

What was once a hot site that a few Reddit users were quick to hype up is now one of the dating sites that Reddit users can't help but diss — in the few instances that AFF is even being discussed at all. The Reddit community is diverse and open-minded; if a dating site exists, someone on Reddit has used it and has an opinion.

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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. The platform is also dealing with an influx of spam, according to their latest transparency report. Election Integrity Partnership). Governing. ? Of those, 36.6

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