Casey Newton - Platformer News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.
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What I learned while cloning my own voice
by Casey Newton on January 14, 2026Announcing Platformer+, a new way to listen to our columns
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Grok gets blocked
by Casey Newton on January 13, 2026More than a week into a deepfake scandal, a handful of foreign governments have found the strength to do what Apple, Google, and the United States will not
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The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
by Casey Newton on January 9, 2026I feel great about the website I’m building — and terrible for professional website builders. PLUS: Who will stop Grok? And ChatGPT will see you now
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
by Casey Newton on January 6, 2026A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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11 predictions for 2026
by Casey Newton on December 19, 2025PLUS: What I got right (and wrong) about 2025
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Spotify is part of the trade war now
by Casey Newton on December 17, 2025The US is retaliating against the EU after it fined X — and now some of Europe's biggest companies are caught in the crossfire
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Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning
by Casey Newton on December 16, 2025A fresh investigation reveals the scope of Meta's problem in China. Will a pending court case force the company to crack down — or destroy Section 230?
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OpenAI is a normal company now
by Casey Newton on December 12, 2025A decade years in, what started as a sci-fi lab is now focused on engagement and growth. What does that mean for building AI safely?
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Australia kicks the kids off social media
by Casey Newton on December 10, 2025How social networks lost the argument. PLUS: All worked up over Nvidia's H200
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How X made the EU's case for it
by Casey Newton on December 9, 2025By banning an ad account on a flimsy pretext, X demonstrated the exact behavior that led the European Union to fine it. PLUS: The state AI law moratorium is back, and the Paramount-Netflix fight
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Where Meta's biggest experiment in governance went wrong
by Casey Newton on December 5, 2025Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?
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How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm
by Casey Newton on December 2, 2025A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
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AI is winning the copyright fight
by Casey Newton on November 26, 2025Why music labels are folding in their cases against AI startups
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Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
by Casey Newton on November 25, 2025What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
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How Trump is converting Republicans to AI safety
by Casey Newton on November 21, 2025His new push for a state moratorium on AI regulation has the right talking like effective altruists. PLUS: the EU backtracks on AI and privacy, and Grok loves Elon
