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Questions about policing online hate are much bigger than Facebook and YouTube
This week’s Simpsons focuses on League of Legends
Valve says it will investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide bad-faith scores
Tinder says it no longer uses a ‘desirability’ score to rank people
LG’s 2019 OLED TV lineup with AirPlay 2 will hit stores starting in April
Snapchat may launch a gaming platform as early as next month
How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more
Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres
Why can’t YouTube automatically catch re-uploads of disturbing footage?
Here’s why Apple is saying Spotify is suing songwriters

Questions about policing online hate are much bigger than Facebook and YouTube

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 04:43 PM PDT

In the wake of a hate-fueled mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, major web platforms have scrambled to take down a 17-minute video of the attack. Sites like YouTube have applied imperfect technical solutions, trying to draw a line between newsworthy and unacceptable uses of the footage.

But Facebook, Google, and Twitter aren't the only places weighing how to handle violent extremism. And traditional moderation doesn't affect the smaller sites where people are still either promoting the video or praising the shooter. In some ways, these sites pose a tougher problem — and their fate cuts much closer to fundamental questions about how to police the web. After all, for years, people have lauded the internet's ability to connect...

This week’s Simpsons focuses on League of Legends

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 03:01 PM PDT

League of Legends will be one of the focal points in Sunday's episode of The Simpsons. The crossover will give fans of the show a look at the world of e-sports and PC gaming, while giving League fans who are lapsed Simpsons viewers a reason to tune in.

Whalen Rozelle, Riot Games' co-head of e-sports, tells The Verge that The Simpsons reached out last year to learn more about League e-sports, as an executive producer for the show regularly drives by League's e-sports arena on the way to work. "This episode was not sponsored in any way. They came to us organically to help consult on the episode," Rozelle says. "We worked very closely with the Simpsons team, reviewing the script and sharing feedback on specific questions they had while...

Valve says it will investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide bad-faith scores

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 02:58 PM PDT

Valve says it's taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting and largely failing to solve the problem of so-called review bombing that taints its consumer recommendation system. In a blog post published today, Valve says that it's "continued to listen to feedback from both players and developers," and it's implementing a new approach: hiding the off-topic review scores.

The company says that it defines a review bomb as "one where the focus of those reviews is on a topic that we consider unrelated to the likelihood that future purchasers will be happy if they buy the game." To identify such campaigns, Valve says that it's developed a tool to identify periods of time where a review bombing is...

Tinder says it no longer uses a ‘desirability’ score to rank people

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 02:30 PM PDT

Tinder wants to set the record straight about how its platform ranks and shows people potential matches, so today it published a blog post on the subject — but still kept things fairly vague. The company's Elo score was a "hot topic" a few years ago, according to the blog post, but the ranking feature has now been depreciated.

The idea behind the Elo score was that Tinder would rank people by attractiveness. Elo scores are used to rank chess players, too, but in the context of Tinder, the more people that swiped right (or Liked) a person's profile, the higher their assigned score went up. Their card would then be served to other people with a similar score, thereby keeping the most desirable people interacting with one another. On...

LG’s 2019 OLED TV lineup with AirPlay 2 will hit stores starting in April

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 01:49 PM PDT

LG has unveiled the pricing and release plans for some of its 2019 OLED TV lineup, basically mirroring the company's playbook from last year. These are some of the very best TVs you can buy, so LG is continuing to price them as such.

The 2019 C9 (65-inch, 55-inch) and E9 (65-inch) series TVs will start shipping in April. The 77-inch model of the C9 and 55-inch E9 will hit stores a bit later in May and June, respectively. And this year's update to LG's "wallpaper" TVs — to be available in 65- and 75-inch sizes — will come out in June.

(If you were wondering, no, there's still not at a firm price or release date for the stunning rollable TV.)

LG's TV branding can be pretty confusing, but all of these TVs fundamentally share the same...

Snapchat may launch a gaming platform as early as next month

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:58 PM PDT

Snap may be launching a new gaming platform for Snapchat as early as next month at the company's Snap Partner Summit in Los Angeles on April 4th, according to a report from Cheddar.

Snapchat has dabbled in games before — the company launched "Snappables," a set of AR lens games last year — but the new platform (said to be codenamed "Project Cognac") would be a larger foray into the gaming world, and it would allow outside developers to create games that would live inside the Snapchat app.

Snap also reportedly bought out Australian game studio Prettygreat back in January, according to a report from CNET, which could further hint at a new gaming push. Additionally, The Information reported in summer 2018 that Snap was working on a...

How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:39 PM PDT

You've probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, and other services; in fact, just across the internet in general. They begin playing as soon as you load a page or (if they're more deviously implemented) when you start scrolling through a page to catch your attention.

Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it's surfacing content that's related to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Autoplay videos can be harmful, too, exposing you to violent, offensive, or otherwise unwanted content that you shouldn't have to see by default. Several browsers, like Google Chrome and Firefox, now have built-in measures to curb autoplay videos, but for the most part, turning them off...

Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:16 PM PDT

Reddit has banned r/watchpeopledie, an infamous subreddit that hosted videos of people dying gruesomely. The ban comes after the subreddit re-hosted videos of the recent mosque massacres in New Zealand. According to the new landing page, the subreddit was banned for violating Reddit's content policy about glorifying or encouraging violence.

A Reddit spokesperson provided this statement: "We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting content that incites or glorifies violence will get users and communities banned from Reddit. Subreddits that fail to adhere to those site-wide rules will be banned."

A source at the company agreed with that assessment, confirming that when communities encourage posting either the shooter's...

Why can’t YouTube automatically catch re-uploads of disturbing footage?

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:02 PM PDT

After a man used Facebook to live stream his attack on two New Zealand mosques last night, the video quickly spread to YouTube. Moderators fought back, trying to take the horrific footage down, but new uploads of the video kept appearing. It led many observers to wonder: since YouTube has a tool for automatically identifying copyrighted content, why can't it automatically identify this video and wipe it out?

Exact re-uploads of the video will be banned by YouTube, but videos that contain clips of the footage have to be sent to human moderators for review, The Verge has learned. Part of that is to ensure that news videos that use a portion of the video for their segments aren't removed in the process.

YouTube's safety team thinks of it as...

Here’s why Apple is saying Spotify is suing songwriters

Posted: 15 Mar 2019 11:51 AM PDT