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Articles from www.platformer.news

Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument (www.platformer.news)
4 days ago

A look at the book The Anxious Generation, as some say author Jonathan Haidt falls short in showing that social media is causing a teen mental health crisis (www.platformer.news)
15 days ago

A look at the rocky launch of Shine, the photo-sharing app developed by Marissa Mayer's startup Sunshine whose cofounder Enrique Muñoz Torres resigned this week (www.platformer.news)
23 days ago Startup

Sources detail Grindr's push to monetize, including plans for an AI chatbot that can engage users in sexual conversations and may be trained on opt-in user data (www.platformer.news)
30 days ago AI chatbot

An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter's tumultuous transition to X (www.platformer.news)
2024-2-16 Interview Twitter

Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky's AT protocol, and more (www.platformer.news)
2024-2-13

Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn't believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material (www.platformer.news)
2024-1-12

Substack says it'll remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content (www.platformer.news)
2024-1-9 Far-right

Substack wants to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, akin to Cloudflare, but a platform can't claim to be simple software when it recommends content (www.platformer.news)
2024-1-5

Q&A with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Gemini, digital agents, changing search, the pace of AI development, coding, and more (www.platformer.news)
2023-12-7 Google AI

Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations (www.platformer.news)
2023-12-2 Amazon AI chatbot

Sources: OpenAI board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and it never got any letter warning about Q* (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-28

Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop moderation policies and manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-14 Israel

Sources: employees at X are increasingly being asked to spend time working on xAI initiatives, as xAI is using GPUs that once belonged to Twitter (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-8 Twitter

A look at OpenAI's custom GPT builder, which Sam Altman says the company wants to keep simple for now, and the risks in allowing anyone to create GPT agents (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-7

Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving (www.platformer.news)
2023-10-24 AI

A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans (www.platformer.news)
2023-10-21

As X struggles to moderate misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, Meta has an opportunity to make Threads a real-time news app many users are clamoring for (www.platformer.news)
2023-10-10 Israel

Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-30

After countless examples of Elon Musk walking back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-8 Elon Musk Zuckerberg

US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-6

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-25 Twitter Elon Musk

Threads' early growth decisively proved the demand for a new text-based conversation app that could fully supplant Twitter's role in shaping public conversation (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-18 Twitter

Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram handle, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, more (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-6 Instagram

Reddit's API changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of its data, a long-planned IPO, and profitable third-party clients generating no revenue for Reddit (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-13 IPO Reddit

Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-11 Google Twitter

How Twitter, YouTube, and Meta gave up on removing lies about the 2020 US Presidential elections, having briefly banded together to do the right thing (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-7 YouTube Twitter

Sources: Elon Musk cut the Twitter Spaces team, which once numbered as many as 100 employees, down to roughly three people over the past several months (www.platformer.news)
2023-5-27 Twitter Elon Musk

Twitter's encrypted DMs don't offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests (www.platformer.news)
2023-5-16 Twitter

Documents: Twitter maintains a list of ~35 accounts which it monitors and offers increased visibility including AOC, Joe Biden, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-28 Twitter Elon Musk

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