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Attack of the Wordle clones

What Apple could learn from past disasters in content moderation

Casey Newton
Jan 13
Image of a Wordle game showing the guesses 'Apple / Needs / Store / Cops/"

Today, let’s talk about Apple’s struggles to rid its App Store of clones, and the broader lesson about how tech giants should approach common problems of content moderation.

When can we confidently say that a company is doing a good job policing its platform? Last week, when I wrote about Facebook’s work to moderate posts about the January 6 attacks, I s…

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