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Advice if you want to work for Facebook: Don’t rock the boat. A student lost his internship with Facebook after provoking the company into updating its location sharing settings for Messenger. Harvard student Aran Khanna had an internship lined up at Facebook, but Khanna wasn’t going to sit around with his thumb up his butt…
There was a very long span of time — probably adding up to more than a decade, ending not so very long ago — in which one of the most important and defining aspects of my near day-to-day life included strategically posting a solid, hard-won jealousy pic (or three, or five, or several more) on the internet…
Barack Obama, slumped like a sullen teen, attempts to dunk a cookie in milk, only to realize with chagrin that the edges scrape haplessly against the cup’s rim. His snack game thwarted, the president mutters with a click of his teeth: “Thanks, Obama.” These few seconds of a Buzzfeed video, which has been viewed more…
In 2006, Condé Nast, the New York-based publisher of Vogue and the New Yorker, among other magazines, bought a promising information-sharing and online-discussion startup called Reddit. At the time, social media was just taking off and big media conglomerates were scrambling for a piece of the action. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. had recently outfoxed Sumner…
Jam Preserves Hello! Matt & Han here with an important message about Jam. After nearly a year assessing many options, we’ve decided to stop operating This Is My Jam in its current form. Read on to learn about why the two of us have made this decision, but first: 1. Your jams are not going…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Reddit CEO Steve Huffman introduced an updated set of user policies Wednesday, which included details for how Reddit would be “quarantining” certain communities and banning ones which were particular awful, including the infamous r/CoonTown. Quarantined communities will be hidden from the general Reddit community and only visible to members of those specific subreddits…
Reddit’s executives are still walking a thin, shaky tightrope as they update the site’s content policy. Today, CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman posted a small update on Reddit’s new moderator tools and rules for policing the site’s worst communities — which could spell one of the biggest shifts in the site’s history. He stayed to chat about what…
As the dust settles at Reddit, CEO Steve Huffman has updated the community on what the company has planned. While most of his post is as you may expect it to be (community quarantines, bug fixes), Huffman did note there would soon be more tools to prevent harassment — all the way down to private…
Look, I know it seems pretty wide open right now, but this lion-killing dentist thing is sailing along just as it’s supposed to: The killer of the lion was revealed. The social media accounts of the Minnesota dentist who killed the lion in Africa have been mined for information. His Yelp listing has been defamed,…
SHARING BUTTONS CONTENT OF THE POST Jessica Moreno was the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month, reports Noah Kulwin for Recode. From Jessica Moreno: I have enjoyed my time at Reddit but after four years I feel that it’s time for me to move on. While I am working with…