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The Interface - Programming note: Here it is: the final edition of The Interface. Beginning Monday, this newsletter will transition to Platformer, a new publicat https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/282313 PlatformerPlatformerZoom cancels talk by Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled at San Francisco State UniversityLawfare Projectterrorist organizationmaterial support or resourcesZoom saw a 300 percent increase in its user base between December and Aprilits promised transparency reportSpotify acquired The Joe Rogan Experienceapologized after learning he was wrongEmployees called for Spotify to take actionthe largest player in all of podcaststake a page from Brian Armstrong’s handbookTelepathClubhouseNotionCodathe internet itself gradually becomes more fragmentedZoe Schiffer

The Interface - Programming note: This is the penultimate edition of The Interface! Next week this newsletter will evolve into Platformer, a new publication by m https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/282043 Platformerreported a noteworthy development about Facebook at the New York Timesan antitrust case against the company could come by the end of the yearbe able to use it wherever you use Facebook appsJames Vincent at The Vergeallowing select usersWatch Together featureNew test lets some people view Instagram stories directly through Facebookone benefit of this approach would be to make a potential break-up of the company more difficultshe writes

The Interface - Programming notes: There’s a presidential debate tonight! Here’s how to watch it online. And here’s Politico’s handy “pre-bunk” of 10 lies you’re https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/281784 Platformerreported a noteworthy development about Facebook at the New York Timesan antitrust case against the company could come by the end of the yearbe able to use it wherever you use Facebook appsJames Vincent at The Vergeallowing select usersWatch Together featureNew test lets some people view Instagram stories directly through Facebookone benefit of this approach would be to make a potential break-up of the company more difficultshe writes

The Interface - Programming notes: There’s a presidential debate tonight! Here’s how to watch it online. And here’s Politico’s handy “pre-bunk” of 10 lies you’re https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/281784 how to watch it onlinehere’s Politico’s handy “pre-bunk” of 10 lies you’re likely to hear at the debatePlatformerwas beginning to remake the relationship between managers and their workforcesI wrote about last week after listening to a summer’s worth of internal meetings at FacebookCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrongtweeted Y Combinator founder Paul Grahamexpressed skepticismSalvador Rodriguez at CNBCwas reported last night on Twitter by Erica Joywas shot dead by police in the middle of the night

The Interface - Programming note: As you may have read, this will be the The Interface's final week in its current form. Next week, it will evolve into Platforme https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280778 why I’m making this move herethe New York TimesOneZerohad contributed to a steady stream of controversies all summerthe Oversight Boardwe’ve covered here beforesaid it would not be operational before the electionmuch frustrationOlivia Solon at NBC Newsthe group told AxiosHannah Murphy at the Financial Times“cannot be accurately counted,” as he did todaystruggles to remove harmful speech

The Interface - In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. This seemed obvious https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280439 some users reported being harassed by other membersTelepathserve healthy conversationshave lower profit marginsShe writessealioning

The Interface - For big tech platforms, one of the more urgent questions to arise during the pandemic’s early months was how the forced closure of offices would https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280023 Here’s James Vincent in The Vergeto profile current and former moderators for YouTube and Googlejust as at FacebookQueenie Wong at CNETYouTubeagree to settle it, for $52 million

The Interface - For big tech platforms, one of the more urgent questions to arise during the pandemic’s early months was how the forced closure of offices would https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/280023 creditedwould be banned from mobile app stores on Sundaypreventing users from receiving critical security updateshe supported Oracle’s bid to acquire a stake in TikTok and oversee some of its operationspatriotic educationGeorgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Street Journaldiffering accountsforce ByteDance to give up control of TikTokfamously badTikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over Chinaa loyal friend in OracleNew York Times notedcontinued to assertwhat happens to the ubiquitous Chinese app WeChatought to serve as a new global modelWall Street Journal reportedflouting of the rule of lawWalmart published a typo that, when read out loud, communicated a kind of anguished cry

The Interface - Mark Twain is credited with first saying that if you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait five minutes. The TikTok deal has followed https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/279085 creditedwould be banned from mobile app stores on Sundaypreventing users from receiving critical security updateshe supported Oracle’s bid to acquire a stake in TikTok and oversee some of its operationspatriotic educationGeorgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Street Journaldiffering accountsforce ByteDance to give up control of TikTokfamously badTikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over Chinaa loyal friend in OracleNew York Times notedcontinued to assertwhat happens to the ubiquitous Chinese app WeChatought to serve as a new global modelWall Street Journal reportedflouting of the rule of lawWalmart published a typo that, when read out loud, communicated a kind of anguished cry

The Interface - Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and el https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278513 internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and election interferenceFacebook Connectsummerescalated tensionsannounced Quest 2The Verge’s Adi Robertson really liked itsmart glassesProject AriaEcho VR“responsible innovation principles”a widely read post on why he thought VR would be smaller than AR

The Interface - This week was the deadline for ByteDance to divorce itself of TikTok over security concerns, but at press time no deal has been struck. Instead, https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278780 the deadline for ByteDance to divorce itself of TikTokHere are Alex Sherman and Lauren Feiner at CNBCwe covered here MondaySaleha Mohsin, Nick Wadhams, and Jennifer Jacobs at BloombergElsewhere at Bloomberghere are David McCabe, Erin Griffith, Ana Swanson and Mike Isaacresignedtook overmore interesttheir abrupt 2018 departure from the companywrote the most comprehensive account to date of Instagram’s storynothing but politethe next waveRT.livehe only lasted in the job for three months

The Interface - Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and el https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278513 The Social DilemmaShe writesinspired grotesque lynchings in IndiaAlexis Madrigal notescredited with inspiringcommunicate in a way that appeals to a broad audiencescooped her 6,600-word farewell memo in BuzzFeed

The Interface - I. A dilemmaOn Sunday night, after being encouraged to by friends and family, I hit play on a new documentary about our digital lives. Directed b https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278219 The Social DilemmaShe writesinspired grotesque lynchings in IndiaAlexis Madrigal notescredited with inspiringcommunicate in a way that appeals to a broad audiencescooped her 6,600-word farewell memo in BuzzFeed

The Interface - I. A dilemmaOn Sunday night, after being encouraged to by friends and family, I hit play on a new documentary about our digital lives. Directed b https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/278219 The Social Dilemmainspired grotesque lynchings in IndiaAlexis Madrigal notescredited with inspiringcommunicate in a way that appeals to a broad audiencescooped her 6,600-word farewell memo in BuzzFeed

The Interface - On the eve of the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok, there was much movement and little certainty. The whole thing seemed to come down to thr https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/277241 trusted tech partnerit had rejected Microsoft’s bid to acquire TikTok in favor of an extremely vague partnership with a 43-year-old enterprise software companyNew York Times reportedare both separately negotiating for stakes in TikTok’s American businessstated reasonbut would do nothing about the lattera loyal friend in Oraclewill all come down to the whims of the presidentwho called on the Council for Foreign Investment in the United States to reject it

The Interface - In July, amid increasing scrutiny from the Trump administration, TikTok announced a novel effort to build trust with regulators: a physical offic https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/276991 said at the timetold reporters on Air Force One that he planned to ban TikTok from operating in the United Stateshe didMayer quitsince been changed to November 12ththe deadline is also still Tuesdaya nice recap of what happens from there80 minutes have passedwhat you’ll find in the News Feed herea more general guidefairly sparsehas long denied that it creates filter bubblessubscribers-only interview with the New York Times’ Paul Mozursome things

The Interface - In July, amid increasing scrutiny from the Trump administration, TikTok announced a novel effort to build trust with regulators: a physical offic https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/276991 wildfires up and down the west coast blotted out the suncaptured the surreal imageryin Julya blog post on Wednesdayhiring a new Director for Diversity and Inclusioncorporate environmental sustainability effortscreated a dedicated space for in Julytwo of the company’s three core values.has been known to send them into fitsin an essay about the rise of TikTok

The Interface - One reason I enjoy writing a column about the intersection between big technology platforms and democracy is that on most days, it feels like one https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/276751 wildfires up and down the west coast blotted out the suncaptured the surreal imageryin Julya blog post on Wednesdayhiring a new Director for Diversity and Inclusioncorporate environmental sustainability effortscreated a dedicated space for in Julytwo of the company’s three core values.has been known to send them into fitsin an essay about the rise of TikTok

The Interface - One aspect of the 2020 presidential campaign that isn’t much discussed is the fact that both candidates want to end the internet as we know it. B https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/275602 Joe BidenSection 230 of the Communications Decency Actthe president wanted to knowthey introduced something called “the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act” on Tuesdayusuallyseemingly impenetrable to everyone elsea sharp new reportNYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights2019 reportpaper

The Interface - Programming note: The Interface will be off Monday for Labor Day.I. The announcementsAfter months of deliberations, Facebook gave its answer to t https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/275347 months of deliberationssaid it would not accept new political ads in the seven days leading up to the Nov. 3rd US presidential electioncovered the announcements at The Vergean unusually direct note of concernthe policies announced Thursday have some obvious limitationson Twittertold voters in North Carolina to vote twicehas sought to sabotage the post office“jokes” about never leaving officestructuring a serious of war-game exercises to prepare for various election disaster scenariosplaced it under a warning labelhistorically trustworthyJay Rosen put itthe view from nowhereFacebook’s Internal Black Lives Matter Debate Got So Bad Zuckerberg Had to Step In

The Interface - Programming note: The Interface will be off Monday for Labor Day.I. The announcementsAfter months of deliberations, Facebook gave its answer to t https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/275347 months of deliberationssaid it would not accept new political ads in the seven days leading up to the Nov. 3rd US presidential electioncovered the announcements at The Vergean unusually direct note of concernthe policies announced Thursday have some obvious limitationson Twittertold voters in North Carolina to vote twicehas sought to sabotage the post office“jokes” about never leaving officestructuring a serious of war-game exercises to prepare for various election disaster scenariosplaced it under a warning labelhistorically trustworthyJay Rosen put itthe view from nowhereFacebook’s Internal Black Lives Matter Debate Got So Bad Zuckerberg Had to Step In

The Interface - Two weeks from today, TikTok as we know it might no longer exist. On Monday, President Trump reiterated his insistence that ByteDance divest itse https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/275064 might no longer existreiterated his insistenceconfirmed their interest in making a deal$20 billion and $30 billionhave the story in the Wall Street Journalthe Chinese government issued new restrictionshad gotten so good at determining a person’s preferences from various signals they send the appcaptured the impact this week in The Informationa simple fairness argumentmade the point concisely herehas long restricted the sale of technology related to cryptographyadded dozens of Chinese companies to an export blacklist

The Interface - In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran ra https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/274796 conspiracy theoriesto trawl Twitter trends for materialreasons to bring an end to trending topics altogetherMoments, a 5-year-old product that uses human curators to find items of interest on Twitter each dayThe company announced it in a blog postcuration teamKate Conger and Nicole Perlroth today in the New York TimesRussian trolls fueled an American-made conspiracy theoryQAnon adherents took over the hashtag #SaveTheChildrenpush Twitter to shut off trends at least through October and the US presidential electionexplained its origins in the Daily Dotreport

The Interface - Today let’s talk about the controversy around a militia organizing on Facebook, the violence that followed, and where that leaves the company hea https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/273904 broke the news at The VergeBrandom reported that the group had been reported multiple times as violating the company’s policies against militiasSection 230as Ryan Mac reported at BuzzFeedsaid the incident had been an “operational mistake.”Facebook banned “US-based militia groups”the lives of Facebook’s content moderatorsstill has a lot of work to do on that front

The Interface - Today let’s talk about the controversy around a militia organizing on Facebook, the violence that followed, and where that leaves the company hea https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/273904 broke the news at The VergeBrandom reported that the group had been reported multiple times as violating the company’s policies against militiasSection 230as Ryan Mac reported at BuzzFeedsaid the incident had been an “operational mistake.”Facebook banned “US-based militia groups”the lives of Facebook’s content moderatorsstill has a lot of work to do on that front

The Interface - TikTok is in trouble. Over the course of less than a day, the company lost its CEO and gained a surprising new suitor. The breakout social app co https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/273664 a surprising new suitorto become chief operating officer at ByteDance and CEO of TikToksaid at the timeDisney’s board of directors had passed Mayer over for the CEOMultiple companies operating independentlyMayer said the hell with itthe growing likelihood of a forced TikTok sale as far back as JanuaryseriesrecentinterviewsMelissa Repko at CNBChas spent the entire Trump Administration flattering the president’s egowho walked out on the job in FebruaryMike Isaac lays them out in the New York TimesByteDance’s powerful algorithmic feeda remarkably adept and focused ByteDance team

The Interface - Apple and Facebook are fighting again, and how you feel about it says something about who you trust to represent your interests in the strange te https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/273444 I found myself asking last yearKurt Wagner at Bloombergin a representative tweetI like how Facebook is spinning this as a bad thinghe wroteBecause it doesPatience Haggin and Jeff Horwitz in the Wall Street Journalbig publishers are considering abandoning iOS altogether because the value of advertising is expected to decline so muchMailOnlinethe cost of reaching customers there declined by 60 percent, The Information reported last yearThe Vergedictating the revenue model of an email startupthreatening to withhold bug fixes from WordPress blog owners if its parent company doesn’t implement in-app purchasing

The Interface - How aggressively should a tech platform be allowed to compete before it becomes anticompetitive? In a summer overflowing with big issues for tech https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/273201 intentionally broke the rules to offer a new payment system that avoided Apple’s 30 percent cutbooted Epic out of the App Storegranted Epic a temporary restraining orderwalking through them herethe Basecamp controversyHe’s very goodand I invite you to give it a listenFocus On The User

The Interface - On August 2nd of last year, TikTok celebrated its first birthday. To mark the occasion, I wrote about the four biggest risks facing the company. https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/272335 four biggest risks facing the companyMike Isaac and Ana Swanson in the New York Timesemergency economic powersan executive orderit was hastily written and offered no evidence supporting its claimsthe president’s action was probably legala legitimate national security case to be made against a dominant American social platform being Chinese-ownedvery limited options for contesting the council’s decisionsrecapped some of the highlights at CNBCCheckthe (somewhat faint) suggestion in this Wall Street Journal piece on Zuckerberg’s Washington lobbying last yearpublicly critical of ByteDance’s restrictive speech policiesI first reported hereFacebook had blocked access to a group with 1 million members dedicated to discussing the king of Thailand

The Interface - Earlier this week, I wrote about how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks. Given sufficient atte https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/272134 authoritarian cast of President Trump’s remarks on the subjecthere on January 7thNicole Sperling in the New York Timesmade a nice Venn diagram last montha recent stunt in which TikTok users registered en masse for one of his rallies and then no-showedare largely outside its controlopen up its algorithms for inspectionutterly abased itself in its public actions to datea poisoned chaliceMark Zuckerberg has told employees that a TikTok ban would represent a terrible precedentRyan Mac and Craig Silverman reported at BuzzFeedsplintered into different companies all around the worldAnother Plandemic sequel will reportedly be posted on the big social networks tomorrowthe last one

The Interface - Earlier this week, I wrote about how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks. Given sufficient atte https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/272134 how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks“Facebook’s Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health,”Elizabeth Dwoskin summed up some of the key findings in the Washington Posta COVID “information center”by Facebook’s countFighting Coronavirus Misinformation and Disinformationactually moved just last week to add a new contextual pop-up when people go to share articles about COVID-19managed to get 20 million views on Facebook in less than a day

The Interface - Before the Tide Pods challenge was a public health crisis, it was a joke. The laundry detergent capsules, which were originally released in 2012, https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/271927 strangely deliciousmany jokes about Tide Pods maybe secretly being candyultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposeda definitive piece on QAnon’s origins as a griftCollins and Zadrozny on Wednesday for NBC NewsTwitter made a similar move last monthsaid in a blog postFacebook began scrutinizing the movement more closely in Maywas arresteda train hijackingrammed a car into a government residencethe company’s recent action against Boogaloo groupsuntil they spun out into thriving standalone communitiessomething like a new religionafter the forums were found to be inciting violencehe didn’t know all that much about themsaving the worlda domestic terrorism threat

The Interface - One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms this year has been their investment in removing misinformation related to the COVID-19 pan https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/271674 racked up millions of viewsa new piece of propaganda pushing a phony COVID curea true “Plandemic” sequel was comingremoving a key account promoting the video from its platformhelpfully chronicled the various pieces of misinformation it containsparticularly within Facebook groupspicks up the story at The VergeNBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny notedKevin Roose notesAdam Satariano took a look at the issue this week at the New York Timespublished in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygienean online conference

The Interface - Well, you know how it is. Head out the door for a long-planned vacation, pray nothing major erupts before you get back, and before you can so muc https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/267716 authoritarian cast of President Trump’s remarks on the subjecthere on January 7thNicole Sperling in the New York Timesmade a nice Venn diagram last montha recent stunt in which TikTok users registered en masse for one of his rallies and then no-showedare largely outside its controlopen up its algorithms for inspectionutterly abased itself in its public actions to datea poisoned chaliceMark Zuckerberg has told employees that a TikTok ban would represent a terrible precedentRyan Mac and Craig Silverman reported at BuzzFeedsplintered into different companies all around the worldAnother Plandemic sequel will reportedly be posted on the big social networks tomorrowthe last one

The Interface - Programming note: It’s time for our summer vacation! The stretch between January and today is the longest uninterrupted period we have ever writt https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/267469 the memo that Kevin Mayer published Wednesdaycalled for external audits of social network algorithmsmanyattendantblindspotsyou really don’t have to add #fyp to every single postThe reported valuation of the app — $50 billion

The Interface - Well, we had an antitrust hearing.A long one, too. The House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the market power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/267252 from Rep. Pramila Jayapalthank you, Rep. Greg Steubelunatic whipsawingconspiracy theoriesthe company’s controversial use of data about third-party sellers on its platformcaught a key exchange at The Vergehow Amazon executives schemed to undermine the parent companyDiapers.comhalf as much revenue from the company as it takes from everyone elsewiped out a whole category of apps that parents used to monitor their children’s screen timeI took a look at this question in The Verge, looking at documents released by the committeecaptured the threat in CNEThell of a timethe many ways in which the company has made life worse for Yelp

The Interface - In May, we saw the arrival of the first viral hoax of the COVID-19 era: “Plandemic,” a meandering 26-minute video which falsely asserted that vac https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/267019 all the way around the worldfunded by wealthy RepublicansSam Shead at CNBCit racked up 20 million views on Facebook aloneKatie Shepherd and Taylor Telford in the Washington Postunlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19made a website less than two weeks agoWill Sommer at the Daily Beast tell you about herkilled 151,000 Americanssome of these claimsa press conference

The Interface - A few minutes after I sent out Thursday’s newsletter previewing this week’s antitrust hearing, news came that the event would be postponed to acc https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/266113 Thursday’s newsletterpostponedwill now take place on Wednesdaystream it herethere will also be bad-faith questions about conservative biasoffered up a sharp, data-driven guide to what Congress might askWalmartalso asked you all for suggested questions on TwitterrespondedwithjokesCNBC’s Matt RosoffJeremy Jacobs:Sam Houstonreports at Bloombergsimilar argumentspending a good portion of $1 billion on Facebook adshas been perhaps the most arrogant company of its peersby threatening to pause construction on its massive new Seattle headquartersplowed funds into a local Seattle electionsparred with its hometown US House representative, Pramila Jayapalthe biggest tech companies have become too powerful

The Interface - Update, 8:42PM: Looks like this hearing might be postponed!On Monday at noon ET, one of the more notable Congressional hearings in Silicon Valley https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/265860 Looks like this hearing might be postponed!is set to take placetheir similarities and differences in Axiosnot that unusualBen Thompson has notedmake their best guesseshow the company uses data from the independent businesses who sell their products on Amazon to decide which products to build and sell under its own labelsplans to sue the company over it anywayhow little he has said publicly during a year of crisis for the companySpotifyBasecamp’s HeyChristopher Stern writes“opening” six years earlier,blocking Vine users from finding their Facebook friends on the appDepartment of JusticeFederal Trade Commissionstate attorneys generalreportedly planning to file a case against Google this summerCaliforniathe other comprising most other statesI wrote about here last week

The Interface - On Monday at noon ET, one of the more notable Congressional hearings in Silicon Valley history is set to take place. The 15-member House Judiciar https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/265860 is set to take placetheir similarities and differences in Axiosnot that unusualBen Thompson has notedmake their best guesseshow the company uses data from the independent businesses who sell their products on Amazon to decide which products to build and sell under its own labelsplans to sue the company over it anywayhow little he has said publicly during a year of crisis for the companySpotifyBasecamp’s HeyChristopher Stern writes“opening” six years earlier,blocking Vine users from finding their Facebook friends on the appDepartment of JusticeFederal Trade Commissionstate attorneys generalreportedly planning to file a case against Google this summerCaliforniathe other comprising most other statesI wrote about here last week

The Interface - Every tech platform has two policies about what they will allow: the policy that’s written, and the policy that’s enforced. Ideally there would b https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/265613 in November 2016CrowdTangleFacebook retooled its algorithms to promote fewer stories from publishersthis day in JuneLater that monthOn Mondaymultiple hearingsRoose’s latest CrowdTangle tweetfired backtook over the News Feed in 2018Ranker.comtweetedsaidmaking reach data public

The Interface - Every tech platform has two policies about what they will allow: the policy that’s written, and the policy that’s enforced. Ideally there would b https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/265613 posted its first set of community guidelines the other weekconspiracy theoryalternate reality gamereligionBen Collins and Brandy Zadrozny had the scoop at NBC Newstheir followers will descend on the timelines of the accusedby tweeting itnot yet defined what it means by coordinationKate Conger reports at the New York Timesfamously led to a gunman shooting up a pizza restaurantFacebook’s Boogaloo ban

The Interface - What news should people see when they come to Facebook?In the old days, your answer might have been “whatever they want to see,” or even “who car https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/265375 in November 2016CrowdTangleFacebook retooled its algorithms to promote fewer stories from publishersthis day in JuneLater that monthOn Mondaymultiple hearingsRoose’s latest CrowdTangle tweetfired backtook over the News Feed in 2018Ranker.comtweetedsaidmaking reach data public

The Interface - I.A week from now, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will be among the CEOs appearing before the House of Representatives’ antitrust committee. Today le https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/264427 Cecelia Kang reports in the New York Timeshas chosen to focus instead on Google for the momentreport at Axioswhether to depose Zuckerberg and Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandbergreported in the Washington Postyou could start with this conversation last year between Wired editor in chief Nick Thompson and antitrust crusader Tim WuBaby Booksa Westerosi trial by combatthe nation’s attorney generalsthe Department of JusticeUS government sued Microsofthad to spend $1 billion on advertisingan average of 80 minutes a day on TikTokthe app has been banned in Indiasecondcan ban one app used by 200 million peopleSplinternetI wrote about it here last year

The Interface - It’s been such a newsy week that we’re ending it with two columns — enough to last you the whole weekend. First, we have what we hope is the ulti https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/264181 the worst security incident in company historyBrian Krebs traces the attack to a community of “SIM swappersFBI is investigatingwhich has Twitter under a 20-year consent decreea handful of detailsWall Street JournalThis piece by the owner of the @6 Twitter account is very goodTwitter says there is no evidence that they didmaybe DMs should be encryptedYesHe doesThey doMaybefalsely said that Ground Zero was under attackfalsely reported that there had been explosions in the White HouseHere’s a story about employees of telecoms getting recruited by criminals to transfer numbers to different SIM cardsa story about an employee of the popular game platform Roblox who was bribed by a hacker to look up users’ personal informationhas some good ideasMaybe, but it would have been much more work than these attackers seemed to have put in, and there’s no guarantee you would have succeededMany people are saying thisadvertiser boycott of Facebook and other social networks this montha difficult civil rights audit of the companythe publication of Facebook’s annual diversity report this weekSarah Frier summed it up at BloombergMaxine WilliamsYou can read Facebook’s 2020 diversity report here

The Interface - You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most ca https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/263960 the most catastrophic security breach in company historyscammers began to impersonateamplify the fake tweet via bot networksinitial commentsThe story picks up with Nick Statt in The Vergemore than $118,000 to the hackersCox writesso-called OG accountstweeting of the cryptocurrency scams from the high profile accountsswap a SIM cardthe second inside job revealed at Twitter this yearsaid almost nothingthisjust tweeted a tornado warning359,000 verified accountscame out just last weekend content moderation

The Interface - You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most ca https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/263960 the most catastrophic security breach in company historyscammers began to impersonateamplify the fake tweet via bot networksinitial commentsThe story picks up with Nick Statt in The Vergemore than $118,000 to the hackersCox writesso-called OG accountstweeting of the cryptocurrency scams from the high profile accountsswap a SIM cardthe second inside job revealed at Twitter this yearsaid almost nothingthisjust tweeted a tornado warning359,000 verified accountscame out just last weekend content moderation

The Interface - Let’s spend a few minutes today catching up on the antitrust inquiries into Google. There are investigations related to competition underway agai https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/263705 investigations related to competitionas early as this summeris preparing to mount its own inquiry into Google’s competition practicesthe company’s decision to ad a fourth ad to the top of search results in 2015Sam Schechner, Kirsten Grind and John West writeBing.comTastymost recently for $1.7 billion this year

The Interface - I got permission to share this with Digiday for a report coming out soon, so I wanted to share with you all as well: The Interface now has more t https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/262747 the forces putting the squeeze on TikTokuncharacteristically for me when I write about TikTokhe expects President Trump will take “strong action” against TikTokexamined American anxieties about the app in The Vergeraised the alarmrerouting external video calls through Chinamore than 100 million peopleas Ben Thompson documented last yearallowing people with large tattooscontent related to Black Lives MatterAmazon emailed employees telling them to delete the app from corporate phonesand stuck to itto take a lookfingerprintand also, for some number of them, their livelihoodsall manner of proposed solutionsit’s expected to generate $500 million in revenue this yearFacebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days leading up to the US electionAustralia

The Interface - I got permission to share this with Digiday for a report coming out soon, so I wanted to share with you all as well: The Interface now has more t https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/262747 the forces putting the squeeze on TikTokuncharacteristically for me when I write about TikTokhe expects President Trump will take “strong action” against TikTokexamined American anxieties about the app in The Vergeraised the alarmrerouting external video calls through Chinamore than 100 million peopleas Ben Thompson documented last yearallowing people with large tattooscontent related to Black Lives MatterAmazon emailed employees telling them to delete the app from corporate phonesand stuck to itto take a lookfingerprintand also, for some number of them, their livelihoodsall manner of proposed solutionsit’s expected to generate $500 million in revenue this yearFacebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days leading up to the US electionAustralia