The Interface By Casey Newton An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 445 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#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
#438 Jan 13, 2020 Instagram enters the Iran conflict – On Monday morning I met with a group of activists who live under authoritarian regimes. The delegatio
#437 Jan 9, 2020 Facebook doubles down on division – In October, Facebook made the controversial decision to exempt most political ads from fact-checking.
#436 Jan 8, 2020 Facebook trips over Teen Vogue – Today Facebook appeared at a Congressional hearing about synthetic and manipulated media, and so it w
#435 Jan 7, 2020 Facebook declares war on deepfakes – We’re used to social networks waiting until the damage has already been done before announcing a clea
#434 Jan 6, 2020 Is TikTok edging closer to a sale? – Happy New Year, everybody! I hope your re-entry into working life went reasonably smoothly. 2020 is s
#433 Dec 19, 2019 Your 2020 social network predictions – Programming note: With this edition, The Interface is now on holiday break! We return January 6th.And
#432 Dec 18, 2019 Inside Facebook’s oversight board – As we start looking forward to 2020 — and your predictions are coming to this space tomorrow — a big
#431 Dec 17, 2019 Pinterest slashes contractor pay for the holidays – It’s been a big week for investigations here at The Interface. On Monday, we published my investigati
#430 Dec 16, 2019 🚨 Special report: Inside Google's terror queue – Keep those 2020 social media predictions coming — we've gotten lots of good ones so far. Back with a
#429 Dec 12, 2019 Your 2019 predictions for social networks, revisited – Near the end of 2018, I asked you all to share your predictions with me for social networks in 2019.
#428 Dec 11, 2019 Twitter's future could look a lot like its past – Welcome to the 100+ people who signed up today after seeing Taylor Lorenz’s nice words about The Inte
#427 Dec 10, 2019 Facebook spurns lawmakers on encryption – In October, a group of top elected officials in western democracies wrote to Facebook expressing conc
#426 Dec 9, 2019 Away's CEO steps down: a story about Slack – Programming note: I promised you a special report this week; it's now scheduled for early next week.
