The Interface By Casey Newton An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 484 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#481 Mar 30, 2020 America embraces location data to fight coronavirus – Last week, we talked about the case for the government using location data gleaned from our smartphon
#480 Mar 26, 2020 Amazon scrambles to keep up – As of Thursday, the United States now has 81,578 cases of COVID-19 — more than than any other country
#479 Mar 25, 2020 Will COVID-19 end the Big Tech backlash? – On March 5th, as COVID-19 began to reshape American life, I noted here that big tech companies had re
#478 Mar 24, 2020 The case for using location data to fight coronavirus – Last week, as coronavirus marched around the world, a growing number of governments began to explore
#477 Mar 23, 2020 Amazon's nearly silent struggle – No one has it easy during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Amazon has it particularly hard. Google, Faceboo
#476 Mar 19, 2020 Can we fight coronavirus with location data? – By now most Americans have gotten the message that, as much as possible, they need to stay away from
#475 Mar 18, 2020 What worries Mark Zuckerberg – The COVID-19 pandemic is now surging around the world, and each hour brings more developments than a
#474 Mar 17, 2020 Coronavirus and the emergency in content moderation – Today, let’s talk about some of the front-line workers at Facebook and Google working on the pandemic
#473 Mar 16, 2020 Trump enlists Google to build him a website – A good thing to do during the global outbreak of a deadly virus is to test people who think they may
#472 Mar 12, 2020 Social networks in a time of social isolation – If Wednesday was the day where the full magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis became clear to many America
#471 Mar 11, 2020 Pandemic and the fight to end encryption – A thing about writing a newsletter about technology and democracy during a global pandemic is that te
#470 Mar 10, 2020 Google joins the coronavirus fight – Last week, as COVID-19 began its spread around the globe, I noted here that the epidemic had prompted
#469 Mar 9, 2020 Jack Dorsey surrenders to the hedge fund – On Thursday, after Jack Dorsey’s first public comments since he was targeted by activist investor Ell
#468 Mar 5, 2020 Jack Dorsey goes on defense – On Tuesday I laid out Elliott Management’s case against Jack Dorsey — or at least, what we know about
#467 Mar 4, 2020 How the coronavirus is changing Big Tech – You hate to accuse our big tech platforms of being responsible during a crisis. For one thing, they b
#466 Mar 3, 2020 Jack Dorsey meets the fight of his life – Were there not a deadly coronavirus spreading across the globe, I suspect more of us might be talking
#465 Mar 2, 2020 What Facebook could learn from Microsoft – It was a big weekend on the tech and governance beat, led by news of the spread of the COVID-19 disea
