This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Tech giants in the US are continuing to meet regularly to work together on protecting their platforms ahead of the 2020 presidential election. In a joint statement released Wednesday, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Reddit, Microsoft, Verizon, Pinterest, LinkedIn and …
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Hundreds of Uber Eats delivery drivers appear to have been shorted their tips over the past couple of days. Apparently, a glitch within the app removed the option for customers to add a tip to their food order. “Just had a customer inform me that the app would not allow them to tip! Called support and they said they’re aware …
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Reddit banned controversial forum The_Donald on Monday as it makes sweeping changes to its hate speech policies. The subreddit sprung up as a forum for supporters of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, but soon became known for playing host to racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and other problematic content. “All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good …
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said Friday that he’s resigned from the company’s board and has urged that his seat be filled with a black candidate. The move comes as protests over police violence and racism continue across the US. The demonstrations were sparked by the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis after a white officer pressed his …
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Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao harshly criticized the tech company on Tuesday after it published an open letter condemning racism, with Pao saying the social network knowingly makes money off hate. “You don’t get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long,” Pao tweeted, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement. Current Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. At least three Uber drivers have come in contact with passengers believed to have been infected with the novel coronavirus, according to the ride-hailing company. That news has left both Uber and Lyft drivers feeling insecure about how to protect themselves from the …
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman reportedly has some strong opinions about popular video app TikTok. During an event Wednesday, Huffman reportedly called the app “fundamentally parasitic” and “spyware.” “I look at that app as so fundamentally parasitic, that it’s always listening, the fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that …
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Reddit is back up after being down for a little over an hour on Wednesday morning. “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results,” said a message posted at 5:24 a.m. PT on the Reddit status dashboard. The outage appears to have begun around 3:45 a.m. PT, according to outage monitoring site Down Detector, and was impacting people in Europe, …
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ Reddit AMA (ask me anything) post was the most upvoted in 2019, the massive forum site said in its year in review blog post on Wednesday. In 2019, Reddit saw more than 430 million monthly active users (a 30% increase from the year before), 199 million posts, 1.7 billion comments and 32 billion upvotes. Gates’ AMA …
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Reddit went down across the globe again on Wednesday, with its front page serving up an error. Problems spiked at around 12:30 p.m. PT, with more than 5,400 reports of an outage, according to Down Detector. “Our CDN (content delivery network) was unable to reach our servers,” Reddit.com said. Reddit’s status page said it was investigating the issue, labelling it as a …
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