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Google feels the heat
Fast-moving bills in the Senate, and an unredacted lawsuit, could chip away at its dominance
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.
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Microsoft's antitrust game
Its planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is wickedly strategic. Will regulators allow it?
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Spotify's misinformation mistake
Don't promote a policy you're not willing to enforce
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Attack of the Wordle clones
What Apple could learn from past disasters in content moderation
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Meta's real antitrust problems are only beginning
Why an FTC inquiry into the company's VR ambitions matters more than today's lawsuit ruling
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Signal gets a new CEO
How will Brian Acton lead? PLUS: The genius of Marlinspike's Web3 critique
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How Signal is playing with fire
A push into untraceable payments could put end-to-end encryption at risk
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Why people are mad at the metaverse
It's too hyped, too hard, and too much. What if it happens anyway?
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The social network and the insurrection, one year later
How much did Facebook matter leading up to Jan. 6? Three questions any story about failures in content moderation should (try to) answer
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The Bored Ape art heist and crypto's trust and safety problem
Can web3 — or its user base — survive decentralization?
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22 predictions for the consumer internet in 2022
Our best guesses for the year to come
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The year in platforms
Our 2021 predictions, revisited
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What the press could learn from Discord
On digital media's missing community
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Deplatforming Trump didn't work
The ex-president is as powerful than ever, and democratic erosion is accelerating. Congress is nowhere. What now?
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Instagram goes to Congress
Who's really responsible for the status quo?
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How Snap is sidestepping the metaverse
Forget your interoperable, NFT-based future — Snap is betting directly on hardware and developers