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Casey Newton
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Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
It's simply never too late to quit X www.reuters.com/business/med...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Sure @caseynewton.bsky.social has the airport but I do my emergency Decoder pickups in my sister’s closet full of Indian clothes using Max’s kitty headphones
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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A strong and true report from the frontlines of tech accountability journalism by @caseynewton.bsky.social: "I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them." www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
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November 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Damning.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“The account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ‘Patriot Voice for We The People’—is actually based in Eastern Europe.”
X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

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November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I find the rapturous reception for Gemini 3 somewhat confusing, since in my early tests ChatGPT still catches more factual mistakes and hallucinates less often
How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

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November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This podcast was a doozy. Highly recommend giving it a listen. There are lots of really rough moments. I was struck by the pettiness in this section and general disrespect throughout the interview. The questions asked were all fair and should’ve been expected.
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We asked Roblox's CEO about child safety on the platform. It got tense www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It is strange but great to see so many Republicans turning against Trump over AI safety concerns www.platformer.news/trump-ai-mor...
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It's simply not great that the world's richest person is building an increasingly powerful model that worships him above every other person www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If your app needs to add these features maybe it's just not that great for people??? techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/t...
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
An important reminder that when you see the term "anti-woke" it is often a euphemism for "contains material from Stormfront"
Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)

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November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is not about crafting good regulation, it is about control of laws by big tech who bought a coin-op president. Also Congress already rejected this www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration drafts an executive order regulating state AI laws
The draft executive order, according to a person familiar with the matter, would try to block states from enacting their own laws regulating AI.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
In the end, all it took down to bring down the government's case against Meta was a simple experiment www.platformer.news/ftc-loses-me...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The FTC's case was premised on the idea that Meta does not compete with TikTok. It was not a great premise.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's Hard Fork ... Tuesday?? We talked to Google's Demis Hassabis and Josh Woodward about Gemini 3 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/p...
Google’s Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
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November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are there any *good* reasons to consider engagement-maximizing algorithms protected speech? I wrote about the California law that has platforms shaking www.platformer.news/california-a...
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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hey ed what was the sex angle on the nomi ai companion story you were pitching during your day job as an AI PR guy www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"Trump Mobile, for the third week in a row, did not respond to a request for comment." www.theverge.com/news/820887/...
Why we’re going to keep talking about the Trump phone
It’s not because we’re fans.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place. My investigation into what happened, which resulted in Spotify taking down a bunch of slop tracks www.platformer.news/king-gizzard...
Spotify's doppelgänger problem
After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place
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November 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If they hadn't released a product I think they could have been valued at $100 billion
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50B valuation, potentially rising to $55B-$60B (Bloomberg)

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November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM