The Interface By Casey Newton The Interface was an evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 578 issues Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that The Interface will receive your email address.
#575 Sep 28, 2020 Facebook's Oversight Board gets some competition – Programming note: As you may have read, this will be the The Interface's final week in its current fo
#574 Sep 24, 2020 Can Telepath fix what Twitter broke? PLUS: your thoughts on 'Mark in the Middle' – In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being ha
#573 Sep 23, 2020 🚨 Mark in the Middle – In May, my sources started sharing secret recordings of meetings inside Facebook. Weekly Q&As wit
#572 Sep 22, 2020 YouTube gets sued by its moderators – For big tech platforms, one of the more urgent questions to arise during the pandemic’s early months
#571 Sep 21, 2020 TikTok's weekend of "Ekejechbecehggedkrrnikldebgtkjkddhfdenbhbkuk" – Mark Twain is credited with first saying that if you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait
#570 Sep 17, 2020 TikTok's Systrom shock – This week was the deadline for ByteDance to divorce itself of TikTok over security concerns, but at p
#569 Sep 16, 2020 Mark Zuckerberg on AR, VR, and "putting an Apple Watch on your face" – Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s
#568 Sep 15, 2020 Sophie Zhang and The Social Dilemma – I. A dilemmaOn Sunday night, after being encouraged to by friends and family, I hit play on a new doc
#567 Sep 14, 2020 TikTok picks a partner – On the eve of the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok, there was much movement and little certainty
#566 Sep 10, 2020 Three takeaways from a day with TikTok – In July, amid increasing scrutiny from the Trump administration, TikTok announced a novel effort to b
#565 Sep 9, 2020 Adam Mosseri on redesigning Instagram – One reason I enjoy writing a column about the intersection between big technology platforms and democ
#564 Sep 8, 2020 Trump attacks Section 230 – One aspect of the 2020 presidential campaign that isn’t much discussed is the fact that both candidat
#563 Sep 3, 2020 Facebook and the view from nowhere – Programming note: The Interface will be off Monday for Labor Day.I. The announcementsAfter months of
#562 Sep 2, 2020 The clock ticks on TikTok – Two weeks from today, TikTok as we know it might no longer exist. On Monday, President Trump reiterat
#561 Sep 1, 2020 Twitter tinkers with Trending – In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspi
#560 Aug 31, 2020 Facebook has a Kenosha problem – Today let’s talk about the controversy around a militia organizing on Facebook, the violence that fol
#559 Aug 27, 2020 TikTok walks into a Walmart – TikTok is in trouble. Over the course of less than a day, the company lost its CEO and gained a surpr
