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The Senate's sneak attack on encryption
A revived EARN IT Act highlights the growing pressure on private messaging
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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What Spotify should do next
The platform is beginning to accept its responsibility – but some big gaps remain
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Three things web3 should fix in 2022
A viral video highlights some very real shortcomings in the next-generation internet
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Spotify and Substack tangle with anti-vaxxers
Neil Young unplugs over the Joe Rogan Experience; COVID deniers rake it in on newsletters. What's a platform to do?
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How creator funds fall short for creators
(They're designed that way)
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Europe's redesign of Big Tech continues
The Digital Services Act is getting closer to passing. Now what?
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The day NFTs went mainstream
The crypto vs. normie war is live on Twitter. Are you a circle or a hexagon?
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Google feels the heat
Fast-moving bills in the Senate, and an unredacted lawsuit, could chip away at its dominance
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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