Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The effort is being developed in consultation with health authorities like the World Health Organization, and will include elevating reputable information from organizations like the United Nations and various health ministries. (A A list of banned vaccine claims, which was formed with the help of health authorities, is available here.)

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The numbers appear to debunk repeated claims by President Donald Trump that the U.S. President Trump has repeatedly criticized Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, over the issue. President Trump says the U.S. Postal Service loses money on Amazon whenever it ships a package. households.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

And if that sounds like a lot of money, it could be worse: Author Stephen King inadvertently bargained Musk down from $20. That’s why Donald Trump had to go with “@realDonaldTrump” when he joined Twitter; someone had already taken @donaldtrump and made it a Trump parody account.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

A new software update will allow iPhones and Android devices to use exposure tracing features built into apps from public health authorities. The two companies released software that will help public health authorities build apps that incorporate their exposure notification tool. Adam Clark Estes / Recode.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the days after Musk took over, he booted top executives, slashed rank-and-file headcount, pushed engineers to work harder, and began fast-tracking a hodgepodge of potentially revenue-generating features, including charging users to get or keep a verification check mark. Conservative politicians like former president Donald Trump, Sen.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2020

A six-year-old Mark Zuckerberg was 13 years from launching Facebook, so Holliday took the video to a local news station. Daudi Abe is a professor at Seattle Central College and author of the upcoming book ‘Emerald Street: A History of Hip-Hop in Seattle.’ The research is as young as the technology itself.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Yellowstone Wolf, from Phoenix, wrapped in a QAnon flag, addresses supporters of US President Donald Trump as they protest outside the Maricopa County Election Department as counting continues after the US presidential election in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 5, 2020. Jake Angeli, 33, a.k.a. Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 18, 2008

| Main | Social networks in organizations: balancing risk, reward, and transparency » The joys of self-employment: 7 reasons to love being your own boss Ross Dawson, April 18, 2008 3:48 AM US PT This is a significant marking point in my life. I have been self-employed for as long as I was employed, making it 12 years of each.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The announcement marks a change in Apple’s repair policies and a big step forward for the right-to-repair movement. Historically, the company has typically only offered repair tools and replacement parts to its 5,000 Apple-authorized service providers and another 2,800 independent repair shops that have Apple-certified technicians.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Building on extensive earlier reporting of Facebook’s moderation efforts, author Andrew Marantz talks to former employees about why hate speech and misinformation can spread on the platform. Similarly, a Cornell University study concluded that Trump himself was a key COVID-19 misinformation source.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

In the interview, Robinson talks about how the boycott campaign came together; his history pushing Facebook on issues of hate speech and civil rights; and meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and fellow leaders of the boycott to discuss the Facebook civil rights audit and how the company can improve the platform. Now I’m back again.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Initially filed during the final phase of the Trump administration in 2020, the suit represents a watershed moment in regulatory scrutiny of the tech industry. The focal point of the trial is whether Google, as alleged by the Justice Department and several states, misused its authority to monopolize the online search market.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

When I saw tweets this week from people begging the board to weigh in on Facebook’s decision about the Trump posts, the implication was that the board would step in and remove what Facebook would not. This is, not coincidentally, something Mark Zuckerberg fears. Trump’s campaign spent $1.48

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Auditors took particular exception to Facebook’s decisions to let stand recent posts from President Trump that, in their view, violated the company’s stated policies around voter suppression and incitements to violence. But from the auditors to the organizers, the refrain is the same: take down those awful Trump posts!

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

On January 6th, 2021, President Donald Trump, the former reality television star of NBC’s The Apprentice, escalated his assault on 244 years of democratic rule by inciting a mob of his supporters to break into the US Capitol building. Trump is now finally facing a ban from Facebook and Twitter. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

billion people a day, and whose rules about speech are ultimately decided and enforced by a single person: Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who controls the majority of the company’s stock. How much of Reddit’s delegation of authority was really just a dereliction of duty? “So Trump spent a record $1.48 Governing. ?

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Vox

APRIL 5, 2023

Former President Donald Trump sitting in a courtroom during his arraignment in New York on April 4, 2023. A few years ago, the historic arrest of a former US president — especially one as polarizing and bombastic as Donald Trump — would have been a moment made for Twitter. Plus, Trump himself wasn’t tweeting.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Today, to soothe my fragile ego, let’s talk about a case where I was a closer to the mark. Crystal Watson, a health-policy expert at Johns Hopkins, who co-authored a report in April on contact tracing, told me that these numbers were better than she had expected. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

In the meantime, Trump remains banned from the platform. This is a big new experiment, and the Trump decision is a big moment for that experiment. Kate and I talked about what the board is — and isn’t — what its powers are, and what this decision means for the board’s authority in the future. So what does all that mean?

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Vox

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Musk may avoid more reputational damage if the lawsuit ends quickly, because this trial would mark the most high-profile attempt at holding him accountable in the public eye. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has a history of publicly undermining regulators and authorities, most notably the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2020

Has Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg cut a secret deal with President Donald Trump, turning a blind eye to his lies and incendiary posts in the hope that the social media giant won’t become the president’s next target? As Trump has stoked tensions, Zuckerberg has remained cordial with the president.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thiel didn’t elaborate on his reasons for leaving in an official statement, nor did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has previously resisted calls to cut ties with Thiel and has defended his presence on the board — something that became particularly controversial after Thiel threw his weight behind Trump.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

In An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination , authors Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang detail the company’s dawning awareness of the foreign adversaries in their midst. The authors write: “They didn’t have a protocol in place, and so they didn’t want us to take action. It made no sense.”.

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Vox

MARCH 22, 2023

As early as 1967, psychologist Marjorie Richey and co-authors concluded that university students, given paragraphs describing a stranger’s personality, were influenced more by negative descriptions than positive ones. Negativity bias,” the tendency for negative information and experiences to overwhelm the positive, kept coming up.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Trump’s reelection campaign is complaining that Facebook’s goal of registering 4 million voters in time for November’s election is an attempt to swing the election in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. President Trump is using Facebook to microtarget voters, while Joe Biden is using it increasingly to ask for donations.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Mark Lennihan / POOL / AFP. A Trump administration plan to use celebrities has been scrapped, but other vaccine education campaigns are turning to influencers to boost Covid-19 inoculation. In fact, the Trump administration had planned a Covid-19 public awareness campaign on celebrities earlier this year. Kennedy Jr.,

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

After President Trump posted to Facebook some tweets that Twitter had placed behind a warning for “glorifying violence,” Mark Zuckerberg said that the company would allow them to stand. “I And two, that Trump had sort of (maybe?) Some people might be comforted that Twitter took a step, even if it didn’t go all the way.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

He’s changed his mind on everything from buying Twitter in the first place to what color its signature check marks should be, and he’s done so in a spectacularly public way. The company rolled check marks into the upgraded Twitter Blue feature on iOS on Wednesday, November 9. 20 a month to keep my blue check?

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

And then, sure enough, on Friday evening Trump — citing the results of a review by the Council on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS — ordered ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok and any data it had gathered on Americans. But Trump chooses to rule by chaos, crisis, and whim, and so now we have these artificial deadlines.

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Vox

JUNE 2, 2022

Her influence at the company was reportedly waning and, at times, she was left publicly apologizing for problems that, ultimately, only her boss, Mark Zuckerberg, had the final authority to fix. In Harbath’s words, “Mark and Sheryl’s viewpoints of how various issues should be handled started to diverge more” at that time.

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Vox

MAY 27, 2020

President Trump speaks to the press on the White House lawn, May 2020. It’s an unending series of political arguments, over everything from the Trump administration’s miserable response to the pandemic to the way government aid should be distributed to disputes over mask-wearing, or not-wearing. Alex Wong/Getty Images.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Thus began Mayer’s brief and mostly silent reign at TikTok, which was thrown into disarray earlier this month when President Trump ordered ByteDance to sell it within 45 days. At the same time, even people who have mostly gotten used to Trump’s chaotic rule-by-whim can still occasionally find themselves surprised by one of his decrees.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2021

A car marked with Uber’s insignia, left, keeps pace with a yellow cab in New York’s Times Square in November 2020. Sarah Jaffe is an independent journalist and the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. But even there, the model has atrophied.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Facebook’s problems are almost synonymous with the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg, who has unilaterally controlled the company he started in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. Hold Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives criminally liable. Do you think Facebook can really change with Mark Zuckerberg in charge? Getty Images.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

All of that is prelude to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing this on Tuesday evening in an op-ed in USA Today : By giving people a voice, registering and turning out voters, and preventing interference, I believe Facebook is supporting and strengthening our democracy in 2020 and beyond. Shelly Banjo and Mark Gurman / Bloomberg).

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But, while some individual conservatives have been banned from some platforms, including former President Donald Trump, the evidence that social media companies are engaged in any kind of systemic discrimination against conservative viewpoints is quite thin.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. But it could also make the companies more likely to take down false or misleading content rather that just add a disclaimer — the opposite of what Trump wants. About social media!

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