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The synthetic social network is coming
Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
Sep 29
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Casey Newton
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The campaign against government’s influence over tech
An effort to stop agencies, academics and platforms from speaking to each other is finding success outside the courts — and has implications for next…
Sep 26
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Casey Newton
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Generative AI is already testing platforms’ limits
A phony Tank Man, and a flood of garbage books, hint at the challenge to come
Sep 22
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Casey Newton
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How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
Sep 20
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Casey Newton
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What I learned in year three of Platformer
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
Sep 19
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Casey Newton
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The FTC takes aim at X
Company documents reveal how a stalled data deletion project and inadequate data protections could put X in the agency’s crosshairs
Sep 15
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Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography
Walter Isaacson brings new tales of Jack Dorsey, that Sergey Brin selfie, and more
Sep 13
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Casey Newton
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Is the First Amendment making a comeback online?
How a major appeals court ruling — and a new lawsuit in California from Elon Musk — could limit the US government’s content moderation agenda
Sep 12
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Casey Newton
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Google goes to court
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
Sep 8
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Casey Newton
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A return to Kiwi Farms
A year after the Cloudflare controversy, the site's resilience speaks to the limits of deplatforming
Sep 6
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Casey Newton
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Did YouTube solve its rabbit hole problem?
A new study on the power — and limits — of changing a recommendation algorithm
Sep 1
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Casey Newton
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August 2023
The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board
A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something important is broken
Aug 30
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Casey Newton
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