The Interface By Casey Newton An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 458 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#455 Feb 11, 2020 Amazon bungles the optics – A little over a year ago, when Amazon’s phony “search” for a site for a second “headquarters” was rev
#454 Feb 10, 2020 A fresh Pelosi video panic – Say you run a large social network in which your most zealous users frequently discuss their politics
#453 Feb 6, 2020 The world that Google Maps predicted – Few apps made by a Big Tech company have improved more over the years than Google Maps. When it launc
#452 Feb 5, 2020 One big idea to stop the spread of deepfakes – Thanks to everyone who came out for last night’s sold-out event with Anna Wiener! We can’t wait to me
#451 Feb 4, 2020 The app that ruined the Iowa caucus – "I've worked professionally in software for 18 years and I can say with certainty that you should not
#450 Feb 3, 2020 Google, Facebook, and Amazon compete in the Super Bowl – Two quick things: One, there were major formatting issues with Thursday’s newsletter; Revue says it w
#449 Jan 30, 2020 Facebook's trust problem isn't about being understood – Podcast alert: I'm on the most recent episode of ReplyAll talking about why social networks are bad a
#448 Jan 29, 2020 The oversight on Facebook's Oversight Board – One of the year’s biggest stories at the intersection of technology and power is the Facebook Oversig
#447 Jan 28, 2020 Platforms get hit with the coronavirus – One result of a world in which everyone has more or less equal access to publishing tools has been wh
#446 Jan 27, 2020 How tech companies should address their workers’ PTSD – On Friday I published a report confirming what had been obvious to anyone who spends much time talkin
#445 Jan 24, 2020 🚨 Special report: the link between content moderation and PTSD, confirmed – Good morning! I'm sending a rare, brief Friday edition of this newsletter to draw your attention to a
#444 Jan 23, 2020 Sundar Pichai says as little as possible – You maniacs sold out our second-ever Interface live event, with Uncanny Valley author Anna Wiener, in
#443 Jan 22, 2020 The great Jeff Bezos WhatsApp caper – Bay Area! I’ll be talking with Anna Wiener about Uncanny Valley, her brilliant new memoir of a life i
#442 Jan 21, 2020 Clearview AI and the mortal threat to privacy – Bay Area! I’ll be talking with Anna Wiener about Uncanny Valley, her brilliant new memoir of a life i
#441 Jan 16, 2020 #NeverWarren and Twitter's hashtag problem – Programming note: The Interface is off Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.Last summer, with misinf
#440 Jan 15, 2020 Captain America's vanity website to save democracy – With our politics increasingly polarized and democracy in retreat, worried Americans are responding i
#439 Jan 14, 2020 Instagram's new encryption challenge – It’s a relatively slow week on the platforms-and-democracy beat, so let’s talk about something small
