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What Tinder learned from Fortnite
CEO Jim Lanzone on the dating app's move into in-app events
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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TikTok's miniature ambitions
How Apple is pushing social networks toward e-commerce
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Amazon fakes an excuse
Inauthentic reviews are epidemic on its marketplace. Amazon blames social networks
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Is Facebook cornering the VR market?
A recent shopping spree is giving some folks Instagram-in-2012 vibes
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Why Google's FLoC flopped
How privacy and competition concerns stopped Google's cookie replacement in its tracks
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The platforms reveal secret subpoenas
A Trump-era abuse of power shows why platforms and the press need each other
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Congress readies an assault on the platforms
House Democrats' five new bills to regulate Big Tech, ranked
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The new threat to TikTok
How a Biden executive order could turn up the pressure
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Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt
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Facebook sets a trap for Trump
What to make of the former president's two-year suspension
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What Twitter Blue gets wrong
Twitter's subscription product is enterprise software that thinks it's for consumers
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Trump deplatforms himself
What a failed blog tells us about the power of Twitter
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How censorship became the new crisis for social networks
It's not just conservatives complaining any more. The crackdowns are real, and getting worse
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Facebook's lab-leak reversal
PLUS: Twitter shows its spine
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What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts
PLUS: WhatsApp sues India
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Amazon's new antitrust paradox
Are its prices too low, or too high?