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TikTok's algorithm leads users from transphobic videos to far-right rabbit holes
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The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked
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Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
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Facebook banned someone for developing a Chrome extension designed to reduce its addictiveness
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Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down
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Identity fraud: On the rhetorical weaponization of identity
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Twitter testing prompts on Android and iOS for 'intense' conversations
@Twitter Support: Ever want to know the vibe of a conversation before you join in? We're testing prompts on Android and iOS that give you a heads up if the convo you're about to enter could get heated or intense.This is a work in progress as we learn how to better support healthy conversation.
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More details about Facebook's October 4th outage
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Don’t be surprised about Facebook and teen girls. That’s what Facebook is.
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Telegram founder says over seventy million new users joined during Facebook outage
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
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Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation”
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The unbelievable grimness of /r/HermanCainAward, the subreddit that catalogs anti-vaxxer COVID deaths
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How mental health became a social media minefield
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The value of in-house expertise
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Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab (owner of Whisper, Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino, Genius, etc.)
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Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
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Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
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Twitter rolls out tipping with bitcoin, explores verifying NFT profile pics
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Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
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A deeper look into how YouTube’s recommendation system works
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Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
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There is no algorithm for truth (presentation by Tom Scott)
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TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
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High Court of Australia rules that media outlets are publishers of third-party Facebook comments
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Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook
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Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
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Youtube screws me over for three years and counting
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Can we mock and/or threaten people into changing their beliefs? (And more importantly, should we?)
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How the modern world makes us mentally ill – Dr. Jonathan Haidt
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OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
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Some background regarding the recent OnlyFans changes
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OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
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Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
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Yik Yak, the anonymous app that tested free speech, is back
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Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS
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Through the looking GLASS - Om Malik interview with the developers of GLASS, a subscription photo sharing app
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Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding, at a valuation of over $10 billion
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Mastodon is now a non-profit organization
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Why AI struggles to recognize toxic speech on social media
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Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
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Twitter and anti-intellectualism
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Reddit has banned the misogynistic "Men Going Their Own Way" subreddits r/MGTOW and r/MGTOW2
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. SRD: r/MGTOW has been banned r/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of...
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀.
SRD: r/MGTOW has been bannedr/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of a U.S. Coast Guard officer planning a domestic terrorist attack.
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Never Gonna Give You Up has passed one billion views on YouTube
@Rick Astley: 1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube ! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!Rick ♥️https://t.co/mzyLznTr4R #NGGYU #NGGYU1Billion pic.twitter.com/p5xnn0OZcZ
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The 13-year-old skater who just won silver in Tokyo first found fame when Tony Hawk spotted her on Instagram
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Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group
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18-year-old member of online harassment group sentenced to five years in prison after "swatting" the owner of a desirable Twitter handle, resulting in a fatal heart attack
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How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall
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Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
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