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Facebook's hate speech blind spot
How an "average" metric can hide real harms
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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Amazon gets busted
Exploiting third-party sellers, manipulating search results, hosting fake reviews. Now lawmakers and the FTC are paying attention
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Two policies Facebook got right
On dangerous individuals and harassment of women, the platform is going further than its peers
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How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head
Players are making thousands of dollars a month battling Pokémon clones. Is this how crypto goes mainstream?
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Why Facebook is spiraling
Frances Haugen exposed real fears about social networks. Facebook should take them seriously
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Apple's bad antitrust week
PLUS: Fallout from the Twitch heist
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A catastrophe at Twitch
The entire code base leaked online. Now what?
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The Facebook whistleblower testifies
What Frances Haugen gets right — and wrong
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Facebook goes down
PLUS: The Facebook Files whistleblower reveals herself
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Congress reads the Facebook Files
And the company turns against its researchers
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Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)
A dark new turn on the authoritarian internet. PLUS: Your pushback on the Facebook Files
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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