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Z2 vets raise $5M to grow Seattle studio Starform and launch social games

GeekWire

Starform was founded in 2018 by Lou Fasulo, Taylor Daynes, Josh Rosen, and Jason English, all of whom formerly worked at the Seattle-based mobile studio Z2 before its acquisition by King in 2015. “We’re big believers in social play,” Fasulo, Starform’s CEO, said in an interview with GeekWire.

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Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.

Vox

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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Kicking people off social media isn’t about free speech

Vox

The debate over deplatforming Trump has overshadowed how effective social media bans are at fighting extremism. Trump’s social media accounts were suspended across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, and TikTok. . | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images. It’s not a violation of the First Amendment.

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Twitch unbans Trump after two-week suspension for ‘hateful conduct’

The Verge

Twitch pointed to remarks at his recent rally in Tulsa, where he referred to criminals as “hombre[s],” and remarks from a rebroadcast of the 2015 event announcing his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants criminals and “rapists.”.

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Everything that the big social networks banned this week, ranked

The Verge

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Third, the stream that led to this de-platforming was a video from 2015 that had aired on many mainstream television stations. Some are deleting their social media profiles entirely.

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The Supreme Court must decide if it wants to own Twitter

Vox

In this photo illustration, a notification from Twitter appears on tweet by former President Donald Trump that the social media platform says violated its policy on May 29, 2020. Freed , involve three social media users who did nothing more than block someone on their Twitter or Facebook accounts. Garnier and Lindke v.

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed flight to space

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” During a string of 13 previous test flights going back to 2015, Blue Origin has flown two other reusable capsules — but First Step is the first one that’s fully configured to take up to six people to the edge of space and back. This was the first outing for this particular spaceship.