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Elon flips the script
Now he says he wants to close the deal. But why? PLUS: Twitter employees react
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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The Supreme Court takes on Section 230
And it could reshape content moderation forever
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The age of synthetic media has begun
As DALL-E opens to the public, will the bigger AI risk come from images — or from text?
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What Figma plans to do inside Adobe
CEO Dylan Field on antitrust, AI, and the future of design
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Can platforms outsmart Texas's social media law?
One idea for how they could try. PLUS: Announcing Platformer's new managing editor, Zoe Schiffer
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Twitch's risky switch
What a big cut to creator revenue and the platform's gambling woes have in common
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Facebook's big new experiment in governance
What if platform policies were written in part by their users?
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How Platformer is changing in year three
What I learned in year two, and what comes next
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Scoop: Facebook shrinks its experimental product division
And you can probably guess what it's working on now
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Is TikTok's time running out?
In new testimony to Congress, the company faces stern questions on China
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Mudge goes to Congress
How big is Twitter's foreign agent problem?
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Is Instagram reeling?
A new report offers reason to worry. PLUS: The "ban TikTok" moment
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Mark Bergen on the story of YouTube
What the Bloomberg reporter learned in the writing of 'Like, Comment, Subscribe'
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Elon keeps losing
Plus: Birdwatch gets bigger
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How Cloudflare got Kiwi Farms wrong
On platforms and the stochastic terrorism loophole
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How a Twitter plan to counter extremism fell apart
A research team was midway through a project to help troubled users. Then Elon Musk bought the company