The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

A proponent of Chaos Theory, trends researcher Bronwyn Williams makes unpredictable futures accessible to businesses that want to thrive amidst accelerating societal and technological change. In 2011, Williams brought her methodology for making sense of disorder and uncovering hidden patterns to Flux Trends. Twitter: @bronwynwilliams.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

Last month Vulcan announced that EarthRanger and a number of other AI-related projects would be moving to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, another organization founded by Paul Allen. As the Internet of Things makes new sensors and devices available, many of these will be integrated, too. Lefcourt said. “We

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

It’s the question, which is on a lot of our minds: What are the trends you are seeing which have reverted back to the mean? Human needs are pretty fundamental, I think, in terms of being social, wanting to meet people. I felt that, given a lot of our work could be done from home, it made sense for us to contribute to social distancing.

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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. To its credit, TikTok has owned up to its overly draconian approach to the problem.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The optimists argue that social media is neither good nor bad , but simply a powerful new tool for society to use. 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.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. 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. India bans TikTok.

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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. Trending up : Facebook is supporting Black-owned businesses in the US with $40 million in grants. Corruption in plain sight.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Trending up : Google is giving more than $8.5

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Trending down : TikTok is full of dangerous coronavirus conspiracy theories despite the company’s pledge to curb misinformation on the platform. Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one.

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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. He threatened to shut down social media companies. He said “big action” would follow.

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