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[Link] TikTok Finally Bans Deadnaming, Conversion Therapy Content

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

TikTok updated its terms of service Tuesday morning to ban deadnaming, misgendering, misogyny, and content that promotes conversion therapy programs.

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[Link] Trump social media company claims to raise $1bn from investors

Read: 5/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner said on Saturday the partner had agreements for $1bn in capital from institutional investors. The former president launched Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in October.

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[Link] The Taliban Are Blacklisted by Facebook. Then Why Are They Allowed to Post?

Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com

For years, Facebook has prohibited the Taliban from using its platform under its counter-terrorist and hate group community standards.

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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] GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Suspended from Twitter after Posting Bounty on a Critic

Read: 14/11/2021 itsgoingdown.org

A failed candidate for governor of California was suspended from Twitter for making “violent threats” after posting a $2,500 bounty; specifically asking for the name and address of a critic from Twitter.

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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Is 1 Twitter Violation Away From a Permanent Ban

Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account has been suspended for a week for posting COVID-19 misinformation, and the Georgia congresswoman is just one more violation away from a permanent ban.

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[Link] Facebook lets Kazakh govt directly flag harmful content, joint statement says

Read: 4/11/2021 www.reuters.com

ALMATY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) has granted the Kazakh government access to its content reporting system, after the Central Asian nation threatened to block the social network for millions of local users.

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[Link] Inside the Facebook Group that Sexualises Pregnant Women

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

The group, whose name in Malay “Koleksi Mak Buyung Malaysia'' translates to “My Collection of Pregnant Women,” attracted at least 5,000 members before it was removed on Monday evening for “violating site policies”.

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[Link] Facebook says Craig Kelly’s content on United Australia Party page OK after banning MP

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

Facebook says the United Australia Party’s page does not violate the social media giant’s community standards despite carrying prominent content from Craig Kelly, whose accounts have been banned for breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.

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[Link] Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes

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

The so-called “Vienna Laid Bare” initiative was launched by Vienna’s tourism board late last week along with its OnlyFans account. As of writing subscribers can receive a complimentary Vienna City Card, or a ticket for one of the museums featured on the account.

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[Link] Google Locks Historian’s Account Over Terrorism Research Videos

Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com

Ed Francis studies the evolution of military technology over at his YouTube channel, Armoured Archives. But this week, Francis says five years’ worth of research stored on Google Drive has become inaccessible thanks to Google’s automated error.

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[Link] Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs

Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company’s automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take down the posts.

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[Link] Facebook: some high-profile users ‘allowed to break platform’s rules’

Read: 14/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report.

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[Link] Sunglasses Have Terms of Service Agreements Now, Thanks to Facebook

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

They are without a doubt the most iconic sunglasses in the world. They are a cliche symbol representation of cool, and yet, somehow still cool. They are decades old, and have been popularized by cartoonishly suave celebs, from Muhammad Ali, to James Dean, to Bruce Willis.

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[Link] OnlyFans’ Botched Porn Ban Cost Creators Real Money

Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com

OnlyFans creators are still trying to recover the subscriptions and income they lost during the company's now reversed sexually explicit content ban.

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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] YouTube says it bans accounts believed to be owned by the Taliban

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

Aug 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Tuesday it bans accounts believed to be owned and operated by the Taliban, as U.S. social media companies scrambled to publicly clarify their rules on the group that is in control of Afghanistan. After U.S.

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[Link] Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating Content

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

Twitter will allow Taliban-affiliated accounts to continue using its platform despite its policies against glorification of violence and threats.

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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds

Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.

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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] Instagram Shuts Down Fake Likes Factory

Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com

Instagram recently sent a cease and desist demand to a site that sold fake likes and engagement on the platform, prompting the site to shut down in response, according to a person involved in the site and confirmation from Instagram.

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[Link] Facebook users struggling to reactivate hacked accounts are buying $300 Oculus VR headsets just so they can talk to a customer service rep

Read: 8/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au

Facebook users struggling to get back into their hacked accounts are buying the company’s $US300 ($AU405) VR headset and returning them unopened just so they can reactivate their profiles, according to an NPR report.

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[Link] Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.

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[Link] #MeToo Hits One of China’s Biggest Celebrities. The State Is Taking Credit.