AI
Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
Casey Newton
Founder and editor of Platformer, a publication about the intersection of tech and democracy. Prior to founding Platformer in October 2020, Newton was the longtime Silicon Valley editor of The Verge.
snap
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Meta
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OpenAI
OpenAI is a weird company
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Meta
At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing
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X
X sneaks back into Brazil
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Snapchat
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Meta
Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
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Meta
Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake
Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?
Elections
Trump’s dead cat bounce
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Telegram
Telegram changes its tune
But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning
Elections
How Russians are changing up their election interference
A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t
X
X gets banned in Brazil
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Telegram
The three cases against Telegram
Pavel Durov has a lot to answer for — but how he is prosecuted could reshape the internet
Jawboning
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