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Platformer

Platformer

Casey Newton

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Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 23

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Weekly audio updates at the intersection of tech and democracy. From Casey Newton.

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  • 🇨🇦 Canada - techNews

    09/06/2026
    #12
  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - techNews

    09/06/2026
    #51
  • 🇩🇪 Germany - techNews

    09/06/2026
    #31
  • 🇺🇸 USA - techNews

    09/06/2026
    #27
  • 🇨🇦 Canada - techNews

    08/06/2026
    #30
  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - techNews

    08/06/2026
    #32
  • 🇩🇪 Germany - techNews

    08/06/2026
    #18
  • 🇺🇸 USA - techNews

    08/06/2026
    #22
  • 🇨🇦 Canada - techNews

    07/06/2026
    #19
  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - techNews

    07/06/2026
    #24

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What I learned while cloning my own voice

mercredi 14 janvier 2026Duration 06:36

Announcing Platformer+, a new way to listen to our columns.

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Grok gets blocked

mardi 13 janvier 2026Duration 05:56

More than a week into a deepfake scandal, a handful of foreign governments have found the strength to do what Apple, Google, and the United States will not.

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The AI productivity paradox

vendredi 23 janvier 2026Duration 06:49

Managers say it makes them more productive. Workers don't. What gives?

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What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t

mercredi 28 janvier 2026Duration 12:18

The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids.

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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook

mardi 3 février 2026Duration 10:55

What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future.


Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-agents-security-content-moderation/

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The infinite scroll goes on trial

vendredi 20 février 2026Duration 06:41

Testifying before a jury in LA, Mark Zuckerberg makes the case that platform design is about free expression. But the walls are closing in on Section 230.

Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/the-infinite-scroll-goes-on-trial/

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Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end

mardi 10 février 2026Duration 12:00

A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever.


Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/social-media-addiction-trial-eu-tiktok-investigation/

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The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot

vendredi 6 février 2026Duration 13:44

Anxiety about AI replacing entry-level jobs is on the rise. Could a state-of-the-art chatbot do the job of a Platformer fellow?


Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/journalism-job-automation-claude/

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The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived

vendredi 27 février 2026Duration 17:53

AI safety researchers have long worried that a government would seek to use AI for domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. The Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic threatens to make it a reality.


Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/anthropic-pentagon-authoritarian-ai/

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What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?

mardi 3 mars 2026Duration 21:37

Sam Altman’s deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. What happens when the public realizes that?


Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/openai-pentagon-surveillance-drones-backlash/

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