Jun 29 Reddit bans pro-Trump forum in hate speech crackdown By Tali Arbel, Associated Press An online comment forum that is one of the internet's most popular websites has banned a pro-Donald Trump forum as part of a crackdown on hate speech. Continue reading
Feb 07 Is 'I Am Not Your Negro' the latest victim of online 'vote brigading'? By Elizabeth Flock The Oscar-nominated ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ has gotten glowing reviews from critics. But online, the reviews for the film look very different. Continue reading
Feb 26 Mass shootings are already far ahead of last year's pace By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger So far in 2016, 49 mass shootings in the United States have left 73 people dead and 178 wounded, according to data collected from a Reddit thread that chronicles gun violence through crowdsourcing news reports. Continue reading
Feb 25 Most Reddit users rely on the site as a news source By Joshua Barajas The self-described "front page of the Internet" may have a smaller user base than Facebook and Twitter, but for most Reddit users, the site's curated message boards are a go-to source for news, according to a new study released Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 15 Like this post: Facebook's working on a 'dislike' button By Joshua Barajas Recognizing that the “like” button isn’t appropriate for all occasions from deaths to various tragic stories, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company is building a “dislike” button for the site. Continue reading
May 08 Big Bird puppeteer tugs at heartstrings with poignant memories in Reddit AMA By Joshua Barajas Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street,” did a Reddit AMA session Friday, where he fielded questions about his decades-long career with the PBS children’s television show. Continue reading
Apr 07 Reddit CEO Ellen Pao bans salary negotiations By Anna Sillers Ellen Pao may have lost a Silicon Valley gender discrimination suit on all four accounts, but she isn’t backing down on a mission to increase gender equality in the tech world. Continue reading
Jun 27 Aaron Swartz's story inspires and infuriates in 'The Internet's Own Boy' By Victoria Fleischer For Aaron Swartz, the teen tech prodigy who became a leader in the fight against regulation and privatization of information on the internet, social activism wasn't a choice, but a calling. Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger characterizes Swartz's mission this way: “If… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch 7:01 Taming the 'Wild West' of online comments By PBS NewsHour More and more websites are including online commenting as a feature for their visitors. But sometimes the comment boards become venues for rudeness and insults. These comments can influence how a reader perceives the story. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with web… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a… Continue watching