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Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users
Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them
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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Why no one can deplatform Hamas
And other challenges of moderating content in wartime
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How to use future AI interfaces today
Raycast, GPT-4, and life after the web
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Should Meta change its policy on deepfakes?
It looks like the Oversight Board thinks so. Will its eventual decision matter?
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How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads
Three months into its existence, the app’s purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
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How authoritarian governments are using generative AI
A new report finds at least 16 countries using synthetic media to mislead their citizens — and the number is growing fast
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Why fact-checking fails to stop deepfakes
Labeling posts only goes so far — but that doesn't mean platforms should give up
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The synthetic social network is coming
Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
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The campaign against government’s influence over tech
An effort to stop agencies, academics and platforms from speaking to each other is finding success outside the courts — and has implications for next year’s presidential election
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Generative AI is already testing platforms’ limits
A phony Tank Man, and a flood of garbage books, hint at the challenge to come
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How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
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What I learned in year three of Platformer
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
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The FTC takes aim at X
Company documents reveal how a stalled data deletion project and inadequate data protections could put X in the agency’s crosshairs
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Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography
Walter Isaacson brings new tales of Jack Dorsey, that Sergey Brin selfie, and more
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Is the First Amendment making a comeback online?
How a major appeals court ruling — and a new lawsuit in California from Elon Musk — could limit the US government’s content moderation agenda
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Google goes to court
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight