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9 votes
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New research finds that user affiliations on Reddit can be used to predict which subreddits will turn so toxic they eventually get banned
30 votes -
In April 2018, Facebook promised to share data so academics could research impact on elections. They haven't done it, and the project's funders will pull out if it's not all available by Sept 30
9 votes -
Twitch suspends popular leftist streamer after controversial 9/11 comments
19 votes -
PewDiePie surpasses 100m subscriber mark on YouTube
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Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
11 votes -
Bolsonaro was ridiculed on social media after criticising Norway for whaling techniques which the country does not use
13 votes -
Reddit is launching "RPAN" live streaming as a time-limited experiment for this week, but it will become a permanent feature soon
20 votes -
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
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The events that led to Gamergate started five years ago today, and The New York Times has just published a series of four pieces related to it
I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through. Unfortunately, they're...
I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through.
Unfortunately, they're in a weird and ugly format, with an incredibly distracting background that constantly sends little "mouse cursors" towards the actual location of your mouse. I highly recommend using Reader Mode or something similar to get rid of the styles. You might also have to click a "READ MORE" link in the right place to even get the text of the article to show up properly.
Here are links to the 4 pieces (I'm not even sure if they'll work properly because of this disaster of a layout):
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Résumés are starting to look like Instagram—and sometimes even Tinder
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Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
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The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed
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Reddit is preparing to launch a livestreaming service called the "Reddit Public Access Network"
30 votes -
Verizon to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner Automattic
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'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
11 votes -
Aether | A decentralized social network
10 votes -
What exactly are these “Amazon FC Ambassadors” on Twitter, how many of them are there, and are they actually real people?
28 votes -
You can't ask that: a documentary series inspired by reddit's AMAs
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How YouTube radicalized Brazil
22 votes -
Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after pressure
12 votes -
Denmark broadcaster uses meme-based journalism to reach younger audience
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Reddit is moving to a twitter-like public follower system
I recently received this message from an admin: Hello! You are receiving this message because you have followed a user profile in the past. Starting on 08/19/2019, we will begin showing some users...
I recently received this message from an admin:
Hello! You are receiving this message because you have followed a user profile in the past.
Starting on 08/19/2019, we will begin showing some users new followers of their profile. In about 3 months, all users will be able to see all the usernames of their followers, including follows that were done in the past, while the user profile feature was in beta. Please take a moment to check your subscriptions list (where followed users also appear) to ensure that if you follow someone, you are comfortable with them being aware of this.
It's a rather big change and a shame that they are making reddit more and more like the rest of social media.
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The creator of the "Upcoming Reactionary Movement Venn Diagram" explains what led to its creation on Tumblr in 2014
7 votes -
A draft executive order from the White House would have the FTC and FCC police alleged social media censorship
7 votes -
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
10 votes -
The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
7 votes -
Cloudflare is terminating service for 8Chan
69 votes -
The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
15 votes -
The “30–50 feral hogs” guy actually had a point
12 votes -
Over-tourism and photo-seekers have been damaging the world's most beautiful places, and even causing some to close to visitors entirely
11 votes -
A framework for moderation - Bright lines for internet moderation don't exist, but we can get closer by defining boundaries for the gray areas
7 votes -
Twitter announces bugs in their advertising settings that resulted in sharing and using users' data even if they explicitly opted out
8 votes -
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
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Former public servant Michaela Banerji loses High Court free speech case
7 votes -
8chan is a megaphone for shooters. ‘Shut the site down,’ says its creator.
32 votes -
Facebook hit with new questions over Cambridge Analytica
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Anti-vaxxers live in an online bubble this scientist wants to burst
6 votes -
Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships
5 votes -
The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create
7 votes -
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
5 votes -
How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
4 votes -
When having friends is more alluring than being right
14 votes -
There are still people making rage comics in 2019, despite everything
21 votes -
Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
13 votes -
Chinese vlogger who used filter to look younger caught in live-stream glitch
14 votes -
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
23 votes -
The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
15 votes -
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
12 votes -
Overly Attached Girlfriend officially quits YouTube
8 votes