The Interface By Casey Newton The Interface was an evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 578 issues Subscribe to our newsletter
#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
