If your Meta account is wrongfully suspended, you're usually screwed unless you have a friend on the inside. The Oversight Board has now noticed that this sucks https://www.platformer.news/meta-account-bans-oversight-board/

New in Platformer: months ago, Meta discussed ending funding to its Oversight Board. But today, after months of negotiations, the board said Meta has increased its funding by $13 million, which will keep it going at least through 2028 https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-2028/

I talked to @boris_cherny about the end of software engineering as we know it — and why AI may be responsible for more job creation than destruction https://www.platformer.news/boris-cherny-interview-ai-jobs/

I wrote about Google's new “Ask YouTube” and other ways the web is being summarized to death https://www.platformer.news/google-agents-daily-brief-newsletters-ask-youtube/

Almost a decade ago, James Manyika bet that tasks would be easy to automate — but jobs wouldn't. Now at Google, he says he's willing to bet against Microsoft, Anthropic, and any other company whose execs say a bloodbath is coming for white-collar work https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/

“The number of births fell first and fastest in the areas that received high-speed mobile connectivity earliest. The authors argue that smartphones have transformed how young people spend time with one another, sharply reducing in-person socialising and leading to the collapse in their fertility.” https://www.ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a-4ad6-b42d-eb08eb7c9ad3?accessToken=zwAAAZ4xN0_fkdP7o17K3zpK1tO0LesI63ya0w.MEUCIQDcH8bilMlGVJqgZstG35mMI2AG3WUTMRgHMxwbjHntngIgT1ShKwhwRQyJ-IkFBNjACw4OxvSSidscpqYR9_r2h2U&sharetype=gift&token=a750465d-0fdc-469e-b2da-45dd825dadfb&syn-25a6b1a6=1

Is Threads growing or shrinking? Apptopia says it's the former — while Meta says that's "objectively false." I wrote about whether the Twitter clones are in trouble https://www.platformer.news/threads-bluesky-x-usage-utopia-twitter-clones/