Sitemap - 2021 - Platformer
22 predictions for the consumer internet in 2022
What the press could learn from Discord
Deplatforming Trump didn't work
How Snap is sidestepping the metaverse
Twitter gets played by the neo-Nazis
Congress trips over Section 230, again
The surprising force behind Twitter's new anti-harassment policy
Reasons you think Web3 might fail
Is the music industry's future on the blockchain?
Facebook plays catch-up on civil rights
How Twitter got research right
Three good ideas for fighting misinformation
How the internet got riskier for kids during COVID
The crypto backlash hits Discord
How plagiarism helps explain Facebook's youth problem
What Twitter learned from subscriptions
The dark horse in the metaverse wars
How Instagram and Twitter buried the hatchet
Why the NSO Group is a symptom of a larger problem
What the metaverse pessimists are missing
How the American internet is turning European
The Facebook Papers' missing piece
🚨 The tier list: How Facebook decides which countries need protection
How NFTs are creating a generational divide between platforms
Facebook's hate speech blind spot
Two policies Facebook got right
How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head
The Facebook whistleblower testifies
Congress reads the Facebook Files
Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)
Why Facebook should release the Facebook Files
How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream
Why these Facebook research scandals are different
A rough year for internet freedom
Apple and Google bow to Russia
What I learned from a year on Substack
Facebook whistleblowers share their findings
Q&A with WhatsApp's Will Cathcart
The day context came back to Twitter
What ProPublica's investigation into WhatsApp left out
Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you've ever seen
Why Twitch needs a panic switch
How platforms are changing our politics
All the most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized
Five questions about OnlyFans and the future of the adults-only internet
How Glass is challenging Instagram by going back in time
What Twitter should copy from Tinder
The platforms' Taliban dilemma
The child safety debate intensifies
Apple joins the child safety fight
Facebook scrapes some researchers
How the conversation around vaccine hesitancy is changing for the better
Notes on a year using Roam Research
Instagram tackles its child safety problem
Google moves against misinformation
The surprising truth about political ads on social networks
Europe unveils new competition rules for tech
President Biden goes after Facebook
How the Oversight Board is changing Facebook
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination, reviewed
Biden moves against tech mergers
A few more words about the Simo situation
Behind Fidji Simo's surprise departure at Facebook
Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake
Microsoft comes for the creators
The Big Tech antitrust bills get their hearing
What Tinder learned from Fortnite
Is Facebook cornering the VR market?
The platforms reveal secret subpoenas
Congress readies an assault on the platforms
Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
Facebook sets a trap for Trump
How censorship became the new crisis for social networks
What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts
Amazon's new antitrust paradox
A global war on speech unfolds
The platforms try a little transparency
How states exploit social networks in wartime
The child safety problem on platforms is worse than we knew
AGs blast Instagram's kids app
Everyone yells at the Oversight Board
The Oversight Board punts on Trump
The Oversight Board proves its mettle
🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio
How to Sidechannel with Mark Zuckerberg
Here's your link to Sidechannel
The Oversight Board expands its scope
Announcing Sidechannel, a new community for Platformer subscribers
The case of the missing platform policies
Clarence Thomas lobs a speech bomb
Amazon fights off its Twitter impersonators
Nick Clegg tries to reset the conversation
Why Amazon picked a fight with Congress
Facebook's election report card arrives
How YouTube culture fueled the Dispo inferno
Facebook hits the brakes on groups
What Facebook sees in newsletters
Microsoft resumes hostilities against Google
Facebook moves to dismiss the FTC
How India could break WhatsApp encryption
Apple's antitrust problems keep getting bigger
How YouTube failed the 2020 election test
The tiny tokens challenging platform power
How social networks should fight authoritarians
Facebook returns news to Australia
How social networks got competitive again
Facebook calls Australia's bluff
Australia's bad bargain with platforms
Twitter seeks the wisdom of crowds
In defense of blocking on Clubhouse
Facebook ejects the anti-vaxxers
A top Trump critic leaves the Oversight Board
Andy Jassy's platform problems
Facebook kicks Trump to the Oversight Board
President Biden defends the truth
What the insurrection taught us about the internet
How the Capitol attack is reviving facial recognition tech
Inside the WhatsApp privacy freakout
What social networks can learn from public spaces
Three questions about tech after Trump
The platform walls close in on Trump