Vox

APRIL 2, 2021

It also provided $100 billion to America’s digital infrastructure, with a lofty goal of giving all Americans access to the affordable, reliable high-speed internet they need to participate in today’s economy. High-speed internet is essential in the 21st century, but nearly 30 million Americans lack access. I’m all in.”. I'm all in.

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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.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

On the other hand, the number of places where they can easily find new followers on the internet appears to be shrinking, and for that at least I’m grateful. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. Trending up : Netflix is shifting $100 million to Black-owned banks. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.”.

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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 up : Grindr is removing ethnicity filters from its app. The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump. Ashley Carman / The Verge ). ??

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack.

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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 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? Yi-Ling Liu / Wired ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Late in the day, there was word of a forthcoming executive order , with no other details.

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