Why Reddit Is Losing Its Battle with Online Hate
March 15, 2019 – UK – Stock photo of the Reddit social media app icon on a smartphone. (Credit Image: © Nick Ansell/PA Wire via ZUMA Press) Reddit’s dark corners can seem like a dangerous and seedy mess. With over 330 million users, the message board platform is vast and filled with posters obsessed with…
Tom Steyer Wants You to Want Him to Be President
Jacob Rosenberg Tom Steyer—hedge fund billionaire, Democratic megadonor, and newly self-proclaimed presidential candidate—is prepared for the question. He’s only 10 days into his campaign, but he knows to expect it. Often, it’s the first question; sometimes it’s a single word. Why? In January, Steyer said he wasn’t running, but now he is, and so are 20-plus other Democrats. There’s the…
Greta Thunberg Is Happy to Her Work Is Described as “Greatest Threat” by Oil Chief
Greta Thunberg attends the “Fridays For Future” rally on April 19, 2019 in Rome, Italy.Ernesto Ruscio/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Greta Thunberg and other climate activists have said it is a badge of honor that the head of the world’s most powerful oil…
The Nation’s Largest Commercial Insurance Company Has Ditched Covering Coal. That’s a Big Deal.
Chubb Ltd., the nation’s largest commercial insurance company, announced it will move away from insuring and investing in coal. It becomes the first major U.S. insurance company to take such action, joining more than a dozen European and Australian insurers that have already adopted similar policies. Chubb will no longer underwrite the construction of new…
The Courts Won’t End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them.
On a frigid March morning, Eric Holder strode into a brick union hall on the west side of Milwaukee, across from a credit union and an auto body shop. The Merrill Park neighborhood was once the center of the city’s Irish political machine, filled with stately Victorian houses—including the childhood home of Spencer Tracy—but it…
Reddit Finally Cracks Down on Its Infamous r/The_Donald Forum
This is the message users see when they visit the r/The_Donald subreddit.Reddit screenshot Reddit on Wednesday took steps to limit the reach of its infamous r/The_Donald subreddit, a far-right hub for many of President Donald Trump’s most extreme and hateful supporters. The social media platform “quarantined” the forum for making “threats of violence against police…