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[Link] These Robotic Reddit TikTok Accounts Come From a Content Farming Discord

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

If you’re on TikTok recently you may have seen a spike in so-called Reddit Stories accounts, which upload TikToks that read out stories written on Reddit and which sometimes have footage of video games playing in the background.

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[Link] Meme Stock Traders Pump Fake Company Enough to Get It Trending

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

The increasingly bored-seeming WallStreetBets crowd has decided that instead of pumping real companies, it’s going to start focusing its energy on a fake one.

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[Link] Reddit Bans ‘No Way Home Leaks’ For Excessive Copyright Complaints

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

Reddit's patience with a subreddit dedicated to leaks and spoilers relating to the expected blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home has been stretched to breaking point.

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[Link] RIAA Takes Down Popular Music Piracy Discord Over Adele ’30’ Leak

Read: 24/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

A popular Discord server specializing in music piracy has been taken down by the RIAA. Sources inside the RipRequests community suggest the problem stemmed from a pre-release leak of Adele's new '30' album.

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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.

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[Link] Landlords Furious When Tenant Takes Her Garden Setup With Her After Kicking Her Out

Read: 6/11/2021 god.dailydot.com

Another entry in Reddit’s famous “Am I the A–hole” forum has left people with absolutely no doubt as to the answer after a young woman removed her self-installed backyard garden setup to take with her when her landlords declined to renew her lease so that they could sell the house she had be

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[Link] Unbelievable: 'Monkey Jizz' Cryptocurrency Turns Out to Be a Scam

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

Investors in a cryptocurrency called Monkey Jizz are posting on social media that they’ve been scammed by the project’s developer after a token sale.

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[Link] Former UFC Star Paige VanZant is Hunting Down Photo Pirates on Discord

Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

Former UFC star and Dancing With The Stars runner-up Paige VanZant is reportedly making more money from selling pictures and videos of herself online than she ever did with the MMA organization.

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[Link] Indie dev finds that Linux users generate more, better bug reports

Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either.

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[Link] WallStreetBets Is All In on DWAC, the Company Behind Trump's New Media Empire

Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com

WallStreetBets goes MAGA over Digital World Acquisition Corp stock.

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[Link] SEC: GameStop Frenzy ‘Tested the Capacity and Resiliency’ of Stock Market

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

“At the same time, the trading in meme stocks during this time highlighted an important feature of United States securities markets in the 21st century: broad participation,” the report noted.

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[Link] Reddit Just Banned One of the Biggest Subreddits for COVID-19 Misinformation

Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com

A week after its CEO said that COVID misinformation wasn’t much of a problem on the site, Reddit has reversed course and banned r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit it said was responsible for massive amounts of COVID-19 misinformation on the site.

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[Link] Reddit Responds to Calls From Moderators to Fight Disinformation

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Some of the most popular subreddits are protesting the proliferation of COVID-19 disinformation and conspiracy theories on the platform.

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[Link] Social networks struggle to crack down on ‘incel’ movement

Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Despite years of strict moderation from major social networks, the “incel” community remains as influential as it was in 2014, when an English 22-year-old killed seven people on the streets of Isla Vista, California, motivated by his hatred of women.

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[Link] Battle Royale Players Upset Their Early Kills Were Actually Just Bots

Read: 14/8/2021 kotaku.com

Naraka: Bladepoint, a parkour melee battle royale out today for PC, starts you off in a match against bots.

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[Link] Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit

Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com

Wednesday, Reddit quarantined r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit that is generally antimask, antivax, and is also against any government COVID restrictions.

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[Link] Reddit user’s rage after ‘crunchy parents’ throw away her newborn daughter’s baby supplies

Read: 8/8/2021 7news.com.au

A mum has spoken of her anger after discovering her brother and sister-in-law had thrown away her nappies, wipes and baby formula for an unbelievable reason.

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[Link] Reddit just took out its MGTOW subreddits like the trash they are. Sorry, were.

Read: 5/8/2021 wehuntedthemammoth.com

Well, it took them long enough. Today, at long last, the Reddit admins banned the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit for promoting hate; they also dropped the ban hammer on MGTOW2, the main subreddit’s purportedly hate-free alternative.

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[Link] Mass Bogus DMCA Takedowns Impersonate Reddit to Attack Downloading Tools

Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com

Reddit downloader bot SaveVideo took itself offline this week following what appeared to be a copyright and trademark complaint from Reddit. However, it later transpired that the main document was an elaborate fake designed to sow confusion.

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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database

Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com

July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.

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