Casey Newton

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How creator funds fall short for creators

(They're designed that way)

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Europe's redesign of Big Tech continues

The Digital Services Act is getting closer to passing. Now what?

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The day NFTs went mainstream

The crypto vs. normie war is live on Twitter. Are you a circle or a hexagon?

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Google feels the heat

Fast-moving bills in the Senate, and an unredacted lawsuit, could chip away at its dominance

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Microsoft's antitrust game

Its planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is wickedly strategic. Will regulators allow it?

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Spotify's misinformation mistake

Don't promote a policy you're not willing to enforce

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Attack of the Wordle clones

What Apple could learn from past disasters in content moderation

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Meta's real antitrust problems are only beginning

Why an FTC inquiry into the company's VR ambitions matters more than today's lawsuit ruling

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Signal gets a new CEO

How will Brian Acton lead? PLUS: The genius of Marlinspike's Web3 critique

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How Signal is playing with fire

A push into untraceable payments could put end-to-end encryption at risk

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Why people are mad at the metaverse

It's too hyped, too hard, and too much. What if it happens anyway?

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The social network and the insurrection, one year later

How much did Facebook matter leading up to Jan. 6? Three questions any story about failures in content moderation should (try to) answer

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The Bored Ape art heist and crypto's trust and safety problem

Can web3 — or its user base — survive decentralization?

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22 predictions for the consumer internet in 2022

Our best guesses for the year to come

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The year in platforms

Our 2021 predictions, revisited

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What the press could learn from Discord

On digital media's missing community