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Why I'm having trouble covering AI If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
a year ago
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Bluesky's big moment A new Twitter clone is surging in popularity. Could it have legs?
a year ago
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How you want me to cover artificial intelligence Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI
a year ago
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The AI is eating itself Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
a year ago
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Elon's war on Substack How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall
a year ago
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Elon Musk's creep show Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's disturbing spiral accelerates
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How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape our political views Four long-awaited studies paint a muddy picture of social media’s impact on public opinion
a year ago
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Apple prepares for a platform shift Will the Reality Pro be the metaverse’s iPhone moment?
a year ago
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The surgeon general's warning is a wake-up call for social networks A growing body of evidence suggests that social products pose significant risks to teenagers
a year ago
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The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?
a year ago
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How two insurgents are taking on Twitter Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
a year ago
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Meta unspools Threads Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on the company's big new swing at Twitter
a year ago
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Google goes to court On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
a year ago
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a year ago
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
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Meta doubles down on layoffs The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the...
a year ago
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The platforms give up on 2020 lies For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more
a year ago
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Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network Is this the Twitter replacement we've been waiting for?
a year ago
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The regulators come for OpenAI From data privacy to defamation, officials have questions
a year ago
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Reddit doubles down Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
a year ago
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What I learned in year three of Platformer Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
a year ago
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How Google is making up for lost time The company is finally bringing AI to the places that matter
a year ago
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TikTok nears the endgame Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost....
a year ago
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a year ago
Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost. PLUS: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page
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How BeReal missed its moment To become the next big social app, competitors have to move faster
a year ago
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Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new...
a year ago
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Google unveils Gemini CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product...
a year ago
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a year ago
CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
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How Sundar Pichai is thinking about AI Three takeaways about Google's approach to this moment, after an interview with Google's CEO
a year ago
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The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that...
over a year ago
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What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout Five lessons, and one open question
a year ago
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The TikTok bans are accelerating With a key vote scheduled for tonight, the company's options are growing limited
a year ago
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In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO Is the job Steve Davis' to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online
a year ago
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Reddit goes dark As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
a year ago
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a year ago
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it
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Meta's Nick Clegg on how AI is reshaping the feed A year after recommended posts caused a crisis at Instagram, the company's systems have improved —...
a year ago
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a year ago
A year after recommended posts caused a crisis at Instagram, the company's systems have improved — and it's ready to talk about how they work
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How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads Three months into its existence, the app’s purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace...
a year ago
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The AI industry really should slow down a little This year has given us a bounty of innovations. We could use some time to absorb them
a year ago
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Four questions platforms should answer before launching AI features PLUS: Musk gets his view count back up
over a year ago
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Susan Wojcicki makes her exit She had a legendary run. Will YouTube's end with it?
over a year ago
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Why journalists can't quit Twitter The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
a year ago
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Why Platformer is leaving Substack We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out
a year ago
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Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them
a year ago
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OpenAI's alignment problem The company's board failed the institution. But did it have a point?
a year ago
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The synthetic social network is coming Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
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It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more...
a year ago
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a year ago
After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
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Here come the ChatGPT bans Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
over a year ago
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How banning one Palestinian slogan roiled Etsy The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees...
a year ago
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a year ago
The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees aren’t happy
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Utah's war on social networks is a symptom of a larger problem Congress failed to act — and now a patchwork of bad state laws is eroding our privacy
a year ago
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Twitter’s risky plan to save its ads business Agree to personalize your ads — or else
over a year ago
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Biden seeks to rein in AI An executive order gives AI companies the guardrails they asked for. Will the US go further?
a year ago
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Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter They're designed for storage, not sparking insights. Can AI change that?
a year ago
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How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday The high cost of cutting expenses
a year ago
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Why Substack is at a crossroads Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
a year ago
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Meta restores Trump Three scenarios for what happens next
over a year ago
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YouTube restores Trump Meta explained its Trump decision in full. YouTube went another direction
a year ago
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Five reasons Threads could still go the distance One week later, engagement is down — but the prize is still there for the taking
a year ago
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How Google's Bard AI could shake up search Dependence on search traffic has already kickstarted a race to the bottom for publishers. Will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dependence on search traffic has already kickstarted a race to the bottom for publishers. Will Google's new AI tools accelerate it?
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13 predictions for platforms in 2023 Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
over a year ago
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Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major...
over a year ago
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The consumer AI era has begun OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
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Microsoft kickstarts the AI arms race The relaunched Bing does research, writes emails, and just might hit Google where it hurts
over a year ago
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Can Snap snap back? At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past...
a year ago
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a year ago
At its annual summit, the company gets bullish on AI — but feels haunted by the ghost of its past ambitions
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How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
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Another whistleblower comes for Twitter Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
over a year ago
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The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something...
a year ago
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Winners and losers in the race to add AI ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
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Substack's new fundraising pitch Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
a year ago
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Can 'radioactive data' save the internet from AI's influence? Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web
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How TikTok failed to make the case for itself After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
a year ago
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The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
a year ago
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New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next?
a year ago
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The OpenAI saga isn’t over just yet A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy ending
a year ago
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Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone
a year ago
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Why TikTok's future has never been so cloudy ByteDance thought it had a deal with the government in August. Then came the bans — and a spying...
over a year ago
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The people who want to end Section 230 may have botched their case But even a ruling against the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs. Google could hurt internet freedoms,...
over a year ago
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Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
over a year ago
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Another Facebook content moderation company quits the business Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
over a year ago
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Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says
a year ago
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Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
over a year ago
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Meta seeks to hide harms from teens But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
a year ago
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Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
over a year ago
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A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
over a year ago
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Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover story Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires —...
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over a year ago
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
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Six questions about Google Bard The company's new large language model has arrived. Now what?
a year ago
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How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
a year ago
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14 predictions about 2024 AI! Elections! Threads! Media! And more
a year ago
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An Epic win jolts Google The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well...
a year ago
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a year ago
The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well beyond Fortnite
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The states sue Meta over child safety Everyone agrees there's a teen mental health crisis. Is this how you fix it?
a year ago
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Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography Walter Isaacson brings new tales of Jack Dorsey, that Sergey Brin selfie, and more
a year ago
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How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang...
a year ago
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How Google taught AI to doubt itself Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
a year ago
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Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
a year ago
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Taylor Lorenz on her extremely online history of the internet Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at...
a year ago
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Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment