The Interface By Casey Newton An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 551 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#548 Jul 27, 2020 What Congress should ask the tech CEOs – A few minutes after I sent out Thursday’s newsletter previewing this week’s antitrust hearing, news c
#547 Jul 23, 2020 A wild antitrust hearing appears – Update, 8:42PM: Looks like this hearing might be postponed!On Monday at noon ET, one of the more nota
#546 Jul 22, 2020 Twitter takes on QAnon – Every tech platform has two policies about what they will allow: the policy that’s written, and the p
#545 Jul 21, 2020 Facebook gets in a Twitter tangle – What news should people see when they come to Facebook?In the old days, your answer might have been “
#544 Jul 20, 2020 The FTC slow-rolls Facebook; TikTok and the Splinternet – I.A week from now, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will be among the CEOs appearing before the House of Re
#543 Jul 16, 2020 The great Twitter hack FAQ; Facebook's diversity challenge – It’s been such a newsy week that we’re ending it with two columns — enough to last you the whole week
#542 Jul 15, 2020 A catastrophe at Twitter – You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of J
#541 Jul 14, 2020 Google comes out on top (of Google) – Let’s spend a few minutes today catching up on the antitrust inquiries into Google. There are investi
#540 Jul 13, 2020 TikTok grasps for control – I got permission to share this with Digiday for a report coming out soon, so I wanted to share with y
#539 Jul 9, 2020 Facebook gets an angry audit – I. After two years of work, an independent civil rights audit of Facebook is now complete. The compan
#538 Jul 8, 2020 TikTok gets caught in the middle – I. A recurring theme of this newsletter is that I write about TikTok, make some dark prediction about
#537 Jul 7, 2020 Clubhouse makes an age-old mistake – I.Yesterday we talked about how a recent social media conflict between journalists and the tech world
#536 Jul 6, 2020 What's really behind "tech" versus "journalism" – Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played out acro
#535 Jul 1, 2020 What Reddit owes its moderators; Facebook's ad boycott grows – Programming note: The Interface is off Thursday. Back on Monday.I. Should Reddit pay its volunteer mo
#534 Jun 30, 2020 Everything social networks banned this week, ranked – Rarely do we see so many ban hammers drop over a 48-hour period as we have seen this week. The big so
#533 Jun 29, 2020 Facebook's ad-pocalypse arrives – It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump, Reddit banned The_Donald, You
#532 Jun 25, 2020 Lawmakers mount new attacks on Section 230 and encryption – To close out the week, let’s talk about some of the recent efforts in the United States to settle lon
