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CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 28, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS
Podcast: Casey Newton on four years of platform chaos
October 29, 2020
Casey Newton, Quinta Jurecic, and Evelyn Douek
CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 28, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testifies remotely during a U.S. Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 28, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS

Casey Newton, founder of the new “Platformer” newsletter covering Big Tech and democracy and the former Silicon Valley editor for The Verge, has followed developments in content moderation more closely than most. Here, he speaks with Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn Douek about what’s changed over the last four years in how platforms, policymakers, and reporters approach content moderation.