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How Twitter is shifting the power balance from companies to their employees

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Here’s Kurt Wagner at Bloomberg: Facebook typically works with law enforcement to follow local laws where the company operates, but said it has paused sharing user data with Hong Kong authorities while it conducts a “human-rights” assessment. Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Benedict Carey / The New York Times). Industry. ?

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

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In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). The Boogaloo movement , if you’ve been sitting this one out so far, refers to a loosely knit group of right-wing extremists, some of whom advocate for second civil war.

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How a fake “Real Oversight Board” is putting pressure on Facebook

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Makena Kelly / The Verge ). The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. The push is meant as a counterbalance to Trump’s supremacy on the platforms.

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Leaving content moderation to volunteers is empowering racists

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How much of Reddit’s delegation of authority was really just a dereliction of duty? “So Makena Kelly talked to some of those folks at The Verge , and uncovered how the company’s all-too-convenient embrace of community moderation has left it with significant blindspots.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

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A 2019 report Goodman co-authored for the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business urges transforming Section 230 into “a quid pro quo benefit.” Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Todd Haselton / CNBC).

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Three takeaways from a visit to TikTok’s new transparency center

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TikTok felt compelled to design these guided tours amid fears that the app would be used to share data with Chinese authorities or promote Communist Party propaganda to Americans. Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Annie Kelly / The New York Times ). Makena Kelly / The Verge ). You can’t prove a negative.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

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Markey sat down for an interview with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy reporter Makena Kelly to discuss these issues, his proposed solutions, and. Makena Kelly: Right. And that’s what the laws that I got the opportunity to co-author in the 1990s all did. But now it’s something that I’ve adapted to.

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