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Young female users feel like TikTok is doing nothing to stop older men from preying on them. So they've built a network to police the app themselves. buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanha…
In perhaps the perfect encapsulation of how messy TikTok's culture of sexual exploitation, one of my sources for this piece was then accused himself of predatory behavior while I was reporting this story.
buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanha…
One of the most unsettling things about TikTok is how easily its central personalized "For You page" can be manipulated by predators and turned into an endless stream of underage users.
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Ryan Broderick
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With every update, tweak, and clarification that YouTube has pushed out in the last 48 hours, they drive more harassment and vitriol against LGBT creators.

They have turned what should have been a clear policy rollout into a fiasco. It's unacceptable.
YouTube refused to communicate anything clearly yesterday. They directed reporters to their Twitter feed where they publicly rolled out update after update, giving more ammunition to the angry far-right creators they didn't actually ban — only demonetized.
Their vague blog post said they'd be "removing hateful and supremacist content." By my count, less than five channels were actually removed (one briefly removed was a history teacher).

Instead, they incensed every bad actor on the platform and whipped them up into a frenzy.
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Ryan Broderick
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I'm so glad we let tech platforms eat the journalism industry.

Now, I can sit and watch a live stream of Notre Dame burning while YouTube's fake news widget tells me about 9/11 for some reason.
I'm not sure there's a better metaphor for the state of the tech industry right now than an American social platform slapping an algorithmically-generated related article about an American terror attack on to a live stream about a completely unrelated French news story.
Oh, apparently, the 9/11 pop-up appears under all the major live streams of the Notre Dame fire?
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Ryan Broderick
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Amol Rajan moderating the #NewsXchange Question Time event this morning just asked David Rhodes, head of CBS News, “When did you know Charlie Rose was a sex pest?” to snickers from the audience.

Then he asked it again to a huge laugh from the audience.
He also kicked off the debate by saying that he’s very excited for “Steve Bannon and other great speakers today.”

By the way, the theme of the week is “polarization” and right before Amol went on, the BBC’s Tony Hall called fake news the greatest threat of our lifetimes.
A student from the audience asked the whole panel about how they feel about “platforming white supremacists.”

Rajan says, “wonder who you’re talking about.”

He polls the audience if Steve Bannon shouldn’t be here today, only about 10 hands out of about 200 go up.
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Ford Fischer
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Within minutes of @YouTube's announcement of a new purge it appears they caught my outlet, which documents activism and extremism, in the crossfire.

I was just notified my entire channel has been demonetized. I am a journalist whose work there is used in dozens of documentaries.
Youtube says "our team of policy specialists carefully looked over the videos you’ve uploaded to your channel News2Share. We found that a significant portion of your channel is not in line with our YouTube Partner Program policies."

As you'll see in the next tweet, that's wrong.
Youtube sent me only two specific videos that they've taken down.

1st is a video of @JasonRCharter and other #Antifa activists confronting a Holocaust denier. While it's true that the Holocaust denier says Holocaust-denier-stuff, this is raw vid documenting him being shut down.
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Zoe Tillman
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Hello on this gray spring morning from the Justice Department, where we eagerly, anxiously await the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's full report. We'll have live coverage all day as events unfold, so follow the whole @BuzzFeedNews team
From DOJ spox Kerri Kupec: In his remarks at 9:30am, AG Barr will address executive privilege (whether it was invoked), White House + DOJ interactions over the last several weeks, and the redaction process.

How is Barr feeling today? "Calm," Kupec says.
Here is what we KNOW:
- Barr will have a presser at 9:30am. DAG Rosenstein will be there, but isn't expected to speak.
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Flavia Dzodan
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in the wake of the Brazilian elections, this is a good piece: “This Is How We Radicalized The World”

it’s more or less a timeline of the past five years of a rising global extreme right wing movement that is shaping world politics

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I chuckled at this, though: “this era of being surprised at what the internet can and will do to us is ending”
mostly because I don’t really know the kind of person who would type “the era of being surprised is ending” when this is a phenomenon that started way before this journalist arrived to the party
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Zoe Tillman
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NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to #SCOTUS, but the ethics complaints filed against him haven't gone away — per letter just made public, Chief Justice John Roberts is transferring them to the 10th Circuit buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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Notably, the 10th Circuit is where Roberts sent an ethics complaint against former DC federal district chief judge Richard Roberts, re: decades-old allegation pre-dating his time as a judge that he sexually abused a teenage witness in a case he prosecuted buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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Wendi Muse
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u may have seen that brazil nearly elected a full-on fascist in the 1st round of its presidential elections on sunday.
u may have questions too.
i'll use this thread to clarify+debunk things i see circulating that are dead wrong.
i'll also provide some reading suggestions.
vamos+
brazil has run-off voting & bolsonaro (whom i'll refer to as the fascist) did not reach 51%,so not ALL hope is lost. between the 1st round of the general election on sunday (which also was for senate, house, and governor) and the 2nd round, candidates have 3 weeks to campaign.+
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