The Interface By Casey Newton An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. 383 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#380 Sep 9, 2019 The states take the fight to Facebook and Google – In July, when the Federal Trade Commission settled with Facebook over privacy issues, I wondered whet
#379 Sep 5, 2019 Facebook asks us to date – A defining feature of Facebook's approach to product development is its ruthlessness, which often man
#378 Sep 4, 2019 YouTube shrugs off the FTC – Last night, at an event in San Francisco, I watched the veteran tech journalist John Markoff intervie
#377 Sep 3, 2019 What YouTube's "responsibility" campaign leaves out – Last week, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote a blog post in which she talked about the platform's comm
#376 Aug 29, 2019 Amazon loses control of its platform – Programming note: The Interface will be off Monday for Labor Day.When a tech platform grows beyond a
#375 Aug 28, 2019 Pinterest leads by example – By 2018, it was clear that Pinterest suffered from a problem many of its peers had long dealt with. B
#374 Aug 27, 2019 YouTube speaks up for itself – YouTube's difficult summer rolls on. Recent stories have revealed that the company might be accidenta
#373 Aug 26, 2019 Facebook readies another run at Snap – Today, thanks to your tips, I bring you a scoop: a new app called Threads, now in development at Inst
#372 Aug 22, 2019 Facebook puts the squeeze on Instagram – When Instagram first hit the news this week, it was over a hoax. A host of celebrities had posted to
#371 Aug 21, 2019 A new approach for dismantling online hate networks – How do you get rid of hate speech on social platforms? Until now, companies have generally tried two
#370 Aug 20, 2019 Facebook makes concessions to privacy, and conservatives – There are many criticisms of Facebook's size, power, and business model, but two stand out for the in
#369 Aug 19, 2019 Twitter and Facebook catch China red-handed – For the past 11 weeks, protesters in Hong Kong have marched in response to creeping authoritarianism
#368 Aug 15, 2019 An Amazon information operation goes awry – One of the big lessons of Amazon's HQ2 debacle, at least from my perspective, was that the company ca
#367 Aug 14, 2019 Three takeaways from a day at Twitter – On Wednesday, Twitter invited reporters to its headquarters in San Francisco for an update on improve
#366 Aug 13, 2019 Google's internal activism is spreading across tech companies – I'm sending out today's edition early to accommodate my attendance at an event this afternoon. Hope y
#365 Aug 12, 2019 It's time to end "trending" on Twitter – By now you've probably read enough about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, his death in a Manh
#364 Aug 8, 2019 The FBI builds a data dragnet on Facebook – On Wednesday, Rob Price published a nice scoop about a San Francisco marketing agency that had been s
