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Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)
A dark new turn on the authoritarian internet. PLUS: Your pushback on the Facebook Files
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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Why Facebook should release the Facebook Files
The company's least-bad option might also do a lot of good
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How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream
Are NFT profiles Twitter users' next big invention?
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Why these Facebook research scandals are different
How the company found itself in its biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica
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A rough year for internet freedom
Freedom House's new report ties the rise of digital authoritarianism to declining democracy around the world.
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Apple and Google bow to Russia
The Splinternet marches on
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What I learned from a year on Substack
Your questions about Platformer, answered
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Apple's uncanny iPhone event
On the growing gap between style and substance. PLUS: More Facebook fallout
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Facebook whistleblowers share their findings
Key takeaways from the Wall Street Journal's investigations
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Q&A with WhatsApp's Will Cathcart
After a contentious year, candid talk on encryption, privacy, and ProPublica
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Facebook makes some Ray-Bans
A milestone in smart glasses — and in the future of privacy?
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The day context came back to Twitter
What Communities mean for our favorite hell site
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What ProPublica's investigation into WhatsApp left out
User reporting is good for privacy — and for encryption's future
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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you've ever seen
Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)
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Why Twitch needs a panic switch
As 'hate raids' proliferate, new tools from Instagram and Twitter suggest a possible solution
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How platforms are changing our politics
Two new studies on how social network incentives are having an outsized effect