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Facebook bans one of the largest QAnon groups for violating harassment, hate speech policies

The Verge

Facebook has removed one of the largest public QAnon groups for violating the company’s policies on misinformation, bullying, hate speech, and harassment, Reuters reported. The group, called Official Q/Qanon had almost 200,000 members, was deleted after numerous posts were taken down.

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Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform.

Vox

Protesters belonging to a group that calls itself the Three Percenters attend an alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. The company removed at least four of these groups and pages after Recode flagged them for posts about shooting BLM protestors. Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images.

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Reddit snark pages are not for the light-hearted

Dataconomy

Then welcome to the Reddit snark pages where dedicated communities dissect and critique the lives of influencers, reality stars, and even regular folks with a viral following. Reddit snark pages focus on celebrities, influencers, reality TV stars, and even specific online communities ( Image credit ) What are Reddit snark pages?

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Reddit bans r/donaldtrump forum for inciting violence

The Verge

Reddit has banned r/donaldtrump for encouraging and glorifying violence after Wednesday’s mob attack on the US Capitol. A Reddit splash page says the subreddit was “banned due to a violation of Reddit’s rules against inciting violence.”. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images.

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Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules

The Verge

Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities today after updating its content policy to more explicitly ban hate speech. In a blog post that cites the company’s new rules, Huffman said users of the r/The_Donald subreddit had violated the site’s policies for years. r/ConsumeProduct.

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Sonoma Bio celebrates new Seattle waterfront R&D center for autoimmune disease science

GeekWire

Claire Page , a senior assistant scientist in process biology, working in a fume hood at Sonoma Biotherapeutics recently opened new R&D center on Seattle’s waterfront. The office is down the street from Expedia Group’s sprawling campus that opened in 2019. Keep scrolling for additional photos.

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Millions gathered to protest Reddit’s latest modifications but will it work?

Dataconomy

Thousands of Reddit groups, commonly called subreddits, will go black from June 12 to June 14 in protest of upcoming API changes that will basically kill off many third-party applications. Today, we will explain the protest’s details and talk about the Subreddits going dark list.