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- Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/
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17 min - Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem
The company is taking new steps to stop AI impersonation — but across the internet, the problem continues to grow. PLUS: Anthropic in court, and Meta loses in New Mexico.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/spotify-artist-profile-protection/
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12 min - Why Meta is retreating from encryption
In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/instagram-encryption-meta-whatsapp/
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15 min - Inside the backlash to the AI war machine
A protest at OpenAI headquarters suggests the backlash to military AI is growing — even if its politics are still half-formed. PLUS: The Pentagon declares Anthropic a supply chain risk.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/openai-protest-military-ai-movement/
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16 min - What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?
Sam Altman’s deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. What happens when the public realizes that?
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/openai-pentagon-surveillance-drones-backlash/
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22 min - The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived
AI safety researchers have long worried that a government would seek to use AI for domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. The Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic threatens to make it a reality.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/anthropic-pentagon-authoritarian-ai/
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18 min - The infinite scroll goes on trial
Testifying before a jury in LA, Mark Zuckerberg makes the case that platform design is about free expression. But the walls are closing in on Section 230.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/the-infinite-scroll-goes-on-trial/
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7 min - Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end
A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/social-media-addiction-trial-eu-tiktok-investigation/
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12 min - The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot
Anxiety about AI replacing entry-level jobs is on the rise. Could a state-of-the-art chatbot do the job of a Platformer fellow?
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/journalism-job-automation-claude/
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14 min - Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future.
Read the newsletter here: https://www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-agents-security-content-moderation/
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