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.

At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing

The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates

Journalism

What I learned in year four of Platformer

Everything that happened after we left Substack

X sneaks back into Brazil

Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?

Snapchat

Snap’s latest spectacle

The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited

Screenshots showing that teens now need parental permission to change settings.

Instagram makes teen accounts private by default

Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?

Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake

Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?

Elections

Trump’s dead cat bounce

What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't

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 gets banned in Brazil

For once, Elon Musk has a case worth fighting — but he has to do it in the courts

The three cases against Telegram

Pavel Durov has a lot to answer for — but how he is prosecuted could reshape the internet

Jawboning

Zuckerberg draws a new line on government pressure

PLUS: Telegram's French press

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