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.

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

How Telegram played itself

Pavel Durov’s arrest over the weekend was shocking. It was also inevitable

Elections

How influence campaigns stopped working

It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop

Productivity

Three apps that made me more productive this year

Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive

Deepfakes

Trump deepfakes a Swift endorsement

The Shitpost Election continues

California's controversial AI bill is on the verge of becoming law

California’s SB-1047 is on a path to the governor’s desk. Will it kill the AI boom?

Deepfakes

Trump’s fakes a deepfake claim

PLUS: Trump goes to Spaces

X is just a political project now

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

Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble (and four reasons we’re not)

AI critics are right about the industry’s challenges — but they risk missing the larger story

X sues the advertising industry

The case is part of a larger conservative project to weaponize the courts against content moderation — and it appears to be gaining momentum

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