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Why Facebook is spiraling
Frances Haugen exposed real fears about social networks. Facebook should take them seriously
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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Apple's bad antitrust week
PLUS: Fallout from the Twitch heist
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A catastrophe at Twitch
The entire code base leaked online. Now what?
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The Facebook whistleblower testifies
What Frances Haugen gets right — and wrong
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Facebook goes down
PLUS: The Facebook Files whistleblower reveals herself
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Congress reads the Facebook Files
And the company turns against its researchers
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Russia threatens YouTube (and Germany)
A dark new turn on the authoritarian internet. PLUS: Your pushback on the Facebook Files
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Why Facebook should release the Facebook Files
The company's least-bad option might also do a lot of good
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How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream
Are NFT profiles Twitter users' next big invention?
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Why these Facebook research scandals are different
How the company found itself in its biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica
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A rough year for internet freedom
Freedom House's new report ties the rise of digital authoritarianism to declining democracy around the world.
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Apple and Google bow to Russia
The Splinternet marches on
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What I learned from a year on Substack
Your questions about Platformer, answered
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Apple's uncanny iPhone event
On the growing gap between style and substance. PLUS: More Facebook fallout
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Facebook whistleblowers share their findings
Key takeaways from the Wall Street Journal's investigations
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Q&A with WhatsApp's Will Cathcart
After a contentious year, candid talk on encryption, privacy, and ProPublica