caseynewton

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

New, Substack-free website just dropped https://www.platformer.news/

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

Platformer is leaving Substack https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

The Taylor Swift harassment campaign on X is a warning. These same tools are already being used to harass average people across lots of platforms, and the response from tech companies and lawmakers hasn't been nearly good enough https://www.platformer.news/taylor-swift-deepfake-nudes-x/

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

There are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them

caseynewton, 5 months ago to random

Also in this issue: an update on the Substack / Nazi situation. We're meeting with the company this week in hopes Substack will remove all pro-Nazi material under its existing anti-hate policies. If it chooses not to, Platformer will move off Substack https://www.platformer.news/p/openais-news-blues)

caseynewton, 25 days ago to random

With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

caseynewton, 3 months ago to random

Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing Mastodon founder @Gargron on the state of the platform and its relationship with Meta. He says he thinks two-way federation between Threads and Mastodon is coming this summer https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

Let’s get clear on what Twitter’s rebranding to X really is: a political project from a right-wing reactionary. https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

caseynewton, 5 months ago to random

Some news: Substack will remove some Nazi publications, it tells Platformer. It insisted this is not a reversal of its previous stance but a fresh interpretation of its existing guidelines https://www.platformer.news/p/substack-says-it-will-remove-nazi

caseynewton, 3 months ago to random

A new study out of Georgetown and Stanford found that propaganda generated by GPT-3 (not 4!) was persuasive to almost half of the people who read it. I spoke to one of the authors and wrote about the implications https://www.platformer.news/ai-generated-propaganda-persuasive-georgetown-stanford-study/

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Twitter launched encrypted DMs with the project lead falsely saying the program had been audited by an outside firm. In fact, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and I report today, no contract had been signed https://www.platformer.news/p/why-you-cant-trust-twitters-encrypted

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

Wrote about the racist user names on Bluesky and how it reveals one of Bluesky's core challenges: building world-class content moderation for an app and business model that were never really designed to support that

https://www.platformer.news/p/bluesky-threads-and-the-decentralization

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Normal app behavior from a company that has enough engineers working on it

caseynewton, 7 months ago to random

I wrote about Discord’s fascinating experiment in trying to rehabilitate wayward teenage trolls. It’s a welcome reminder that trust and safety teams can innovate ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/p/inside-discords-reform-movement-for

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

We might be about to see a whole lot of employees leave X. https://www.platformer.news/p/is-x-bracing-for-exodus

caseynewton, 11 months ago to random

Some lessons from the Reddit blackout. https://www.platformer.news/p/what-were-learning-from-the-reddit

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

I wrote about how YouTube, Facebook and Twitter collectively gave up on removing lies about the 2020 election — and what that means for 2024

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-platforms-give-up-on-2020-lies

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

The obvious next step for Twitter is to announce that if you subscribe to Blue no one will be able to block you

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

After experiencing a kind of visceral revulsion using the Arc Search app, I wrote about how tech platforms are accelerating the decline of the web https://www.platformer.news/arc-search-quora-poe-perpexity-journalism-web-future/

caseynewton, 8 months ago to random

I wrote about the Republican effort to stop the government, platforms, and academics from talking to each other about interference in our elections https://www.platformer.news/p/the-campaign-against-governments

caseynewton, 5 months ago to random

Some thoughts on Substacks and Nazis https://www.platformer.news/p/why-substack-is-at-a-crossroads

caseynewton, 6 months ago to random

Scoop from @reporterzoe and me: Amazon’s new Q model is hallucinating and leaking confidential info, according to internal documents reviewed by Platformer
https://www.platformer.news/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations

caseynewton, 19 days ago to random

The past week of news out of OpenAI illustrates how a company that once prized moving with caution is now dead set on winning at all costs, whatever Scarlett Johansson or anyone else thinks about it https://www.platformer.news/open-ai-scarlett-johansson-her-voice-sam-altman/

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

I wrote about how platforms killed Pitchfork https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/

caseynewton, 6 months ago to random

OpenAI’s board failed the institution entirely. It may also have had a point. https://www.platformer.news/p/openais-alignment-problem