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Why Content Moderation Costs Billions and Is So Tricky for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Others
After the riots at the Capitol in January, debate is swirling over how platforms like Facebook and Twitter moderate content and what’s protected as free speech.
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This Reddit-Famous Banana Bread Recipe Has Been in 1 Family for 4 Generations
“So far, I’ve heard every single time someone made it, they loved it,” said the Redditor who shared the super simple recipe
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As Short Interest Falls to Near-Record Lows, Two Traders Sound the Alarm on Short Squeeze Traps
Two market analysts determine whether some of the most-shorted stocks in the market are still safe to trade.
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Bill Gates Likens GameStop Frenzy to Gambling, Says Such Speculation Has No Societal Purpose
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates expressed concern about the role social media played in the GameStop trading frenzy.
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Reddit CEO Says Activity on WallStreetBets Was Not Driven by Bots Or Foreign Agents
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman will tell members of Congress that none of the activity on WallStreetBets was driven by bots or foreign agents.
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Homeowner Finds Secret Pasta Sauce Recipe Hidden in Garage From 1947
David, a medical laboratory scientist who posts to Reddit as orestes77, was pulling down some old pegboard in his Denver, Colorado garage when he found an envelope with “spaghetti recipe” written across the front hidden behind the wall.
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Noah Centineo to Star in a New Movie About the GameStop Stock Controversy
Noah Centineo will star in a new Netflix film about the Redditors that spiked the GameStop stock last week in their crusade against hedge funds.
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Social Media Stocks Dip Amid GameStop-Reddit Frenzy. Why Two Top Names Could Fall Further
Facebook shares could fall another 14% if they breach one key level on the stock’s chart, Piper Sandler senior technical research analyst Craig Johnson warns.
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EXPLAINER: Why GameStop's Stock Surge Is Shaking Wall Street
It’s not just you. What’s going on with GameStop’s stock doesn’t make sense to a lot of people.
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Are Social Media Companies Too Big to Control Hate Speech?
Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.
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Reddit, Twitch Restrict Trumpist Forums Over Hate Speech as Social Media Faces Reckoning
For years, social media platforms have fueled political polarization and hosted an explosion of hate speech. Now, with four months until the U.S. presidential election and the country’s divisions reaching a boiling point, these companies are upping their game against bigotry and threats of violence. What’s not yet clear is whether this action is too little, too late —...
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Reddit Co-Founder Quits Board, Calls for Black Successor
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the San Francisco company’s board and is urging his colleagues to fill the seat with a black candidate.
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Reddit Co-Founder Resigns, Asks That Replacement Be Black Person
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced Friday that he is resigning from the company’s board. “I’m doing this for me, for my family and for my country,” Ohanian said in a video posted to his Instagram.
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They Ordered to Support ‘Local Business' in Pandemic. Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Showed Up
The pizza shop seemed independent at first, but when the delivery came, they learned it was actually from Chuck E. Cheese.
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Doctor Arrested for Attacking Teen Girls, Choking One, Apparently for Not Social Distancing
A Kentucky doctor who violently attacked a group of teen girls, choking one of them, apparently for failing to practice social distancing, was arrested after a video of the incident went viral over the weekend, NBC News reports.
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How Reddit's Coronavirus Community Became a Destination
Emerson Boggs, 25, a Ph.D. student and virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, signed up on Jan. 23 to moderate what was then a small Reddit community with about 1,000 members dedicated to a relatively obscure topic: a new coronavirus that had been discovered in Wuhan, China, according to NBC News.
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Massive ‘Avengers: Endgame' Footage Leak Hits Twitter, Reddit
Marvel fans are being warned to stay away from social media after leaked footage from the upcoming “Avengers: Endgame” was found circulating online. Walt Disney has kept the film shrouded in so much secrecy that even journalists and critics weren’t permitted to see the film ahead of its premiere. Those who have viewed the clip have called it “spoiler heavy.”...
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Exclusive: Reddit CEO Talks Fending Off Russian Interference
Reddit, the fifth-most visited U.S. website, according to the analytics firm Alexa, has been on the offensive against suspicious accounts linked to Russia, which its CEO Steve Huffman said have attempted to put up more than 1,000 posts in 130 different communities on the website in the past month. “We have a handful of teams working on this topic here,”...
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Reddit Hack Shows Strong Security Can Be Bypassed Too
Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the internet, fell victim to a cyberattack in June, the company revealed today, allowing hackers to steal email addresses and passwords of what the company calls a “small number” of users. The attack happened despite Reddit’s use of two-factor authentication, which relies on two separate factors, like a password and an SMS...