The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Google came in a close second, with 14 wins, for categories including best navigation and best branded editorial experience. Webby Special Achievement: Google Classroom. Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby Special Achievement: Invisible Hands.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

While it poses as a news outlet, Natural News is actually a network of sites filled with bylined articles and flanked by ads for survivalist gear and dodgy health cures. That a network like Natural News can continue to spread misinformation on Facebook shouldn’t be surprising. A brief history of Natural News.

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Vox

MAY 1, 2023

That month, bold-faced names canceled their attendance at Davos in the Desert , a giant event in Riyadh hosted by the Future Investment Initiative Institute, a nonprofit linked to the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and the sponsor of the Miami conference. Even Wag, the dog-walking app, got $300 million.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen created an international media blitz earlier this year when she leaked tens of thousands of damning internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal and US government. Then-Google AI research scientist Timnit Gebru speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 in San Francisco.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities. “In

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. for 5G networks. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The pessimists argue that social networks are getting played by bad actors who have gamed it to re-enforce and worsen existing power imbalances. Trending down : Google is placing ads on websites that publish coronavirus conspiracy theories, helping their owners generate revenue and continue their operations. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. How exactly? The move follows Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. There was a big debate over the ethics of that when Google Glass first came out, but a long time has passed since then. Brent Kendall, John D.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

I can’t see a good reason, in most cases, for a big social network to deny the president his right to speak. Given the likelihood of him simply going to post elsewhere, and bots immediately re-posting his thoughts to the networks where he has been banned under different account names, I doubt you even could.) Ina Fried / Axios ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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