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Platformer • 130 likes • 31 Jan 23 Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
Platformer • 77 likes • 18 Jan 23 Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover story Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
Platformer • 77 likes • 25 Jan 23 Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
Platformer • 69 likes • 13 Jan 23 Can 'radioactive data' save the internet from AI's influence? Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web
Platformer • 31 likes • 03 Feb 23 A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
Platformer • 27 likes • 06 Jan 23 Here come the ChatGPT bans Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
Platformer • 22 likes • 10 Jan 23 How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equation After a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
Platformer • 16 likes • 11 Jan 23 Another Facebook content moderation company quits the business Amid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
Platformer • 16 likes • 24 Jan 23 The consumer AI era has begun OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
Platformer • 13 likes • 31 Jan 23 Another whistleblower comes for Twitter Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
Platformer • 8 likes • 20 Jan 23 The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that illegal, too
