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Platformer
• Casey Newton
Breaking up is very hard to do. So what else is on the table?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
A new initiative will handle user appeals in Europe — but it can be more effective for them than it has been for Meta?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
A redesign hopes to capture some of the app’s once-youthful energy — but its older users remain a problem in more ways than one
Platformer
• Casey Newton
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
Platformer
• Casey Newton
The future of computing is starting to come into focus
Platformer
• Casey Newton
What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
Platformer
• Casey Newton
The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Everything that happened after we left Substack
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't
Platformer
• Casey Newton
But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning
Platformer
• Casey Newton
A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t
Platformer
• Casey Newton
For once, Elon Musk has a case worth fighting — but he has to do it in the courts
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Pavel Durov has a lot to answer for — but how he is prosecuted could reshape the internet
Platformer
• Casey Newton
PLUS: Telegram's French press
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Pavel Durov’s arrest over the weekend was shocking. It was also inevitable
Platformer
• Casey Newton
It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive
Platformer
• Casey Newton
The Shitpost Election continues
Platformer
• Casey Newton
California’s SB-1047 is on a path to the governor’s desk. Will it kill the AI boom?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
PLUS: Trump goes to Spaces
Platformer
• Casey Newton
As Trump returns to posting, and Musk leans even further into right-wing conspiracy theories, X has reached its final form. PLUS: On Susan Wojcicki
Platformer
• Casey Newton
AI critics are right about the industry’s challenges — but they risk missing the larger story
Platformer
• Casey Newton
The case is part of a larger conservative project to weaponize the courts against content moderation — and it appears to be gaining momentum
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Europe never found a remedy that increased search competition. Will the United States fare any better?
Platformer
• Casey Newton
The era of scraping and praying is coming to an end. But will the web be any better off when it does?
