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How Google's Bard AI could shake up search
Dependence on search traffic has already kickstarted a race to the bottom for publishers. Will Google's new AI tools accelerate it?
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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A visit to TikTok's transparency center
Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
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Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback
EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
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Another whistleblower comes for Twitter
Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
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Meta restores Trump
Three scenarios for what happens next
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Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date
The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
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The consumer AI era has begun
OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
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The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving
Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that illegal, too
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Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover story
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
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Can 'radioactive data' save the internet from AI's influence?
Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web
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Another Facebook content moderation company quits the business
Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
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How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
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Here come the ChatGPT bans
Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
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Why TikTok's future has never been so cloudy
ByteDance thought it had a deal with the government in August. Then came the bans — and a spying scandal
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13 predictions for platforms in 2023
Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
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Twitter’s risky plan to save its ads business
Agree to personalize your ads — or else