Casey Newton | Vox Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. 2021-01-21T17:19:57+00:00 https://www.vox.com/authors/casey-newton-2/rss https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/vox_logo_rss_light_mode.png?w=150&h=100&crop=1 Madeline Marshall Casey Newton <![CDATA[Tech platforms banned Trump. Now what?]]> https://www.vox.com/2021/1/21/22242544/tech-platforms-banned-trump-now-what-twitter 2021-01-21T12:19:57-05:00 2021-01-21T12:15:00-05:00 Former President Donald Trump has now been kicked off of social media platforms from Facebook and Twitter to Shopify. But the misinformation he spread on those platforms lives on.

His suspension followed a violent insurrection on the Capitol in his name and came months after Twitter had begun flagging hundreds of his posts for false statements about the election that he lost. But, as Platformer’s Casey Newton explains, banning Trump was actually the easy part.

Now tech platforms have a new problem: How do you combat misinformation when it’s become bigger than any single user?

Deplatforming can be very effective at limiting a single voice. Alex Jones is a good example of that. But these platforms can’t be defined by just what they won’t allow. How are they going to create an online ecosystem based in one reality?

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]]> Casey Newton <![CDATA[What two of Facebook’s top executives have to say about tech’s big antitrust moment]]> https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/10/18658103/facebook-adam-mosseri-andrew-bosworth-tech-antitrust-moment 2019-06-10T11:44:50-04:00 2019-06-10T08:20:00-04:00
Facebook exec Adam Mosseri at Code Media 2018. | Asa Mathat for Vox Media

The growing calls to break up Big Tech have put pressure on companies to demonstrate that enormous size has more benefits than drawbacks. Wouldn’t everything be easier if these companies were smaller — and more manageable?

As The Verge’s Silicon Valley editor, I’ll have a chance to ask that question directly of two longtime Facebook executives, Adam Mosseri and Andrew Bosworth, on Monday at Code Conference 2019.

Mosseri ran the heart of Facebook — the News Feed — until October of last year. That’s when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg handed him one of the company’s most important assignments: ensuring the continued success of Instagram following the departure of its founders.

Bosworth — who met Zuckerberg when they were both at Harvard — has worked at Facebook since 2006 in a variety of roles. He currently serves as the company’s vice president for augmented reality and virtual reality, where he oversees experimental hardware projects such as Portal and Oculus.

In addition to discussing antitrust questions, we’ll be talking about Facebook’s pivot to privacy, its hardware efforts, and Instagram’s recent experiment with making “Likes” private — all onstage at Code on Monday, June 10, at 4:15 pm PT.

How to watch the full interview: Each and every onstage interview at Code will be available to watch in full on Recode’s YouTube channel in the coming days.

You can also get live updates and breaking news from the stage. Follow Recode on Twitter so you don’t miss a beat. We’ll be live-tweeting our onstage interview with Mosseri and Bosworth using #CodeCon. We’ll also feature some exclusive behind-the-scenes highlights from the conference on Instagram.

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