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A Section 230 hearing goes awry
What is it going to take to get good tech policy in America?
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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The platforms brace for Election Day
On the latest moves from YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia
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Facebook fights a browser extension
Do you have a right to donate your data to science?
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Facebook's Supreme Court arrives
How much justice can Facebook's new justice system provide?
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AOC shakes up Twitch
Plus: Sifting through the Google antitrust coverage
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Justice comes for Google
Talking through the antitrust lawsuit with Google — and one of its chief antagonists
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Twitter walks it back
Should platforms intervene to stop disinformation?
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Got a couple minutes?
My best case for upgrading your Platformer membership today
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YouTube comes for Q
Plus: Twitter and the New York Post, revisited
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The platforms spy a hack-and-leak
In a New York Post report, Facebook and Twitter smell a rat
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Facebook rethinks Holocaust denial
How real-world violence led Facebook to reverse its most controversial policy
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Twitter adds friction
Can you slow down the internet with quote-tweets?
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Why did Facebook ban QAnon now?
The social network and the heap of sand
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The House makes its move
The good, the bad, and the gridlock in Congress' big antitrust report
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Instagram turns 10
'No Filter' author Sarah Frier on what comes next
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Trump is a problem platforms can't solve
On mail-in voting, COVID-19, and how disinformation spreads. (Also: hi!)