AI and its consequences
Reports on AI companies and examines implications for work, creativity, daily life, safety, the economy, and the web.
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Perimeter Reading / Technology
Platformer
Casey Newton
Independent reporting on AI, social platforms, and technology governance, examining how decisions inside powerful companies affect workers, public debate, and everyday life.
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The publication
What to expect.
Platformer combines original reporting, analysis, commentary, and selected links about technology and the people shaping it. Casey Newton's publication pays particular attention to AI, the changing social web, and questions of governance, safety, regulation, privacy, and speech. Interviews and reporting connect company decisions with their consequences for workers and users. Free editions offer an entry point, with additional updates for paid subscribers. Read it to understand the contested decisions and institutional pressures that sit behind technology products and platform policies.
Who it’s for
Readers interested in how AI companies and social platforms make decisions, exercise power, and respond to pressure from workers, users, governments, and researchers.
Inside the reading
Its areas of focus.
Platform governance
Covers moderation, privacy, speech, regulation, and antitrust as decisions that influence how technology platforms operate in society.
Industry participants
Draws on conversations with leaders, employees, policymakers, and researchers to explain the institutions shaping the technology industry.
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