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Twitter braces for layoffs
Behind the scenes at the wildest tech takeover ever
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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Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter
Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification
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Elon takes over Twitter
Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please
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Elon closes in
With Twitter all but his, employee surveys from 2019 to today show how a leadership vacuum hurt the company
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The metaverse gets an upgrade
Thoughts on the Quest Pro
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Elon's deadline approaches
And Twitter employees are getting nervous. PLUS: The Wire retracts its Meta stories
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The Oversight Board spins its wheels
Meta's grand experiment only heard three cases last quarter. Where's the justice that we were promised?
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Did this email cost Mailchimp's billionaire CEO his job?
Ben Chestnut stepped down in August after arguing that asking for pronouns at the start of meetings “does more harm than good”
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The Wire pulls its Meta stories
Q&A with Siddharth Varadarajan, The Wire's founding editor
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Inside the messy fight between Meta and The Wire
The journalists behind a controversial series of stories tell us they haven't been hoaxed. We're not so sure
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Last call on the Platformer sale
One more chance to become a paid subscriber for 20% off
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Spotify's about-face on abortion ads
How post-Roe politics are have created upheaval for platform policies
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Meta's metaverse turns Pro
CTO Andrew Bosworth on the Meta Quest Pro, timing the market, and whether this is the company's hardest moment
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What Meta has to prove at Connect
It's not that the metaverse will happen. It's that the company isn't too early
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Announcing the first Platformer sale
New year, new us
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Elon gets his delay
Will he use the extra time to close the deal — or build an escape hatch?