Month in Review 08 - Social Media Platforms updating their Content Policies

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Bench Banter by Boomerang Parental Control

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A big trending topic from the past 30 days is how social media platforms have started to improve their content policies with the goal of educating their users about misinformation, old posts that may not be relevant today and flagging or remove content related to hate speech. We also discuss what is being a "Karen" and how teens with lots of time on their hands, have been mimicking the behavior.  TikTok and several other apps were exposed by Apple's upcoming iOS14 scrapping the iOS clipboard – this resulted in these apps being able to know what you copied and were about to paste to other apps.  The articles we referenced in the episode: https://www.insider.com/claudia-conway-posting-anti-trump-tiktoks-2020-6 https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subreddits-the-donald-chapo-trap-house-new-content-policy-rules https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-apps-banned-in-india-6482079/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/teens-in-quarantine-are-roleplaying-as-karens-on-instagram-making-fake-personas-dedicated-to-loving-wine-and-supporting-trump/ar-BB15Yjso https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tulsa-rally-trump-us-tiktok-k-pop-ticket-sales-a9577741.html