Casey Newton - Platformer (Page 5)

The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates

Journalism

Everything that happened after we left Substack

X

Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?

Snapchat

The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited

Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?

Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?

Elections

What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't

But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning

Elections

A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t

X

For once, Elon Musk has a case worth fighting — but he has to do it in the courts

Pavel Durov has a lot to answer for — but how he is prosecuted could reshape the internet

Jawboning

PLUS: Telegram's French press

Pavel Durov’s arrest over the weekend was shocking. It was also inevitable

Elections

It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop

Productivity

Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive

Deepfakes

The Shitpost Election continues