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How BeReal missed its moment
To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
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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Twitter's badge of dishonor
The weekend's verification bonfire is an all-time case study in doing trust and safety wrong
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Can Snap snap back?
At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past ambitions
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So much for Elon Musk’s everything app
Suspending emergency accounts, enabling anti-trans speech, and other stops Twitter is making in its pursuit of X
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State tech laws are dividing the internet into blue and red
The blue internet will probably look like Europe's. The red internet will look ... much different
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How two insurgents are taking on Twitter
Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around Notes
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The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI
The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
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Elon's war on Substack
How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall
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The regulators come for OpenAI
From data privacy to defamation, officials have questions
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Why journalists can't quit Twitter
The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
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How Sundar Pichai is thinking about AI
Three takeaways about Google's approach to this moment, after an interview with Google's CEO
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The AI industry really should slow down a little
This year has given us a bounty of innovations. We could use some time to absorb them
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Substack's new fundraising pitch
Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
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How TikTok failed to make the case for itself
After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
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Six questions about Google Bard
The company's new large language model has arrived. Now what?
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YouTube restores Trump
Meta explained its Trump decision in full. YouTube went another direction