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What Casey Newton learned in year 3 of running his Substack

Confused about the Meta/Wire saga? Read these stories, it’ll help

Casey NewtonMarch 14, 2022

Substack’s new platform play

The company has an iOS app and big new ambitions. Should writers be scared?

Casey NewtonSeptember 20, 2021

What I learned from a year on Substack

“The only way a Substack grows is through tweets. I am like 85% serious when I say this.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 3, 2020

Lots of visible likes and shares on social lead people to spread more misinformation

When people saw that a questionable piece of content had been liked and shared lots of times, they were more likely to share it themselves

“I no longer believe 9/11 was a terrorist attack”: Working as a Facebook content moderator messes with people’s minds

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 22, 2019

While YouTube and Facebook fumble, Pinterest is reducing health misinformation in ways that actually make sense

Plus: Big advertisers ban YouTube (not over vaccines), the National Cancer Institute wonders how to respond to health misinformation, and how to fill a data void.

Joseph LichtermanNovember 1, 2016

As The Verge turns five, here’s how it’s thinking about building a news site for the distributed age

“The way I’m thinking about it right now is that we’ve moved from RSS readers and desktop web to very much having our stuff mediated by a series of icons on homescreens.”

Justin EllisMarch 23, 2015

This is my next step: How The Verge wants to grow beyond tech blogging

“We want to use technology as a way to define pop culture, in the way Rolling Stone used music and Wired used the early Internet.”