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Casey Newton

Casey Newton

@CaseyNewton

platformer.news

I write @platformer, a publication about big tech and democracy. | 1/8th of #Sidechannel | casey@platformer.news | instagram: @crumbler

131279 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#8 0.005875 Recode
#12 0.010974 The Verge
#14 0.011248 The Information
#52 0.002395 Techcrunch
#73 0.001445 The New York Times
#117 0.000779 Ars Technica
#144 0.001085 Wired
#192 0.000851 CNBC
#205 0.000747 Wall Street Journal
#250 0.000667 BuzzFeed
#288 0.000366 Bloomberg Opinion
#316 0.000369 The Atlantic
#423 0.000356 VICE
#917 0.000004 Newsmax
#937 0.000004 OANN
#1007 0.000081 The Daily Beast
#1064 0.000155 Financial Times
#1068 0.000006 Stat News
#1072 0.000130 The Dispatch
#1131 0.000028 Reuters
#1163 0.000077 Washington Post
#1230 0.000099 New Yorker
#1607 0.000080 Foreign Policy
#1922 0.000059 The Los Angeles Times
#2002 0.000006 The Economist
#3624 0.000007 Palladium Magazine
#4161 0.000004 The Intercept
#4200 0.000012 The New York Post

Venture Capital

#10 0.004189 Homebrew
#98 0.001527 Sutter Hill Ventures
#105 0.001413 Khosla Ventures
#108 0.001001 A16Z
#130 0.001670 Accel
#140 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#182 0.000669 Initialized Capital
#185 0.000717 Benchmark Capital
#211 0.001004 Y Combinator
#242 0.000006 Founders Fund
#405 0.000245 Index Ventures
#421 0.000406 Sequioa
#465 0.000168 Bessemer
#1896 0.000058 Village Global
#2247 0.000004 My Climate Journey

Culture and Political Economy

#38 0.002553 Progress Studies
#45 0.002310 The Long Now Foundation
#97 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#147 0.000006 Fair Vote
#282 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#298 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#335 0.000006 Existential Risks
#337 0.000335 EFF
#408 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#424 0.000377 Social Epistemology
#429 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#451 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#667 0.000006 350.org
#691 0.000260 Heterodox Academy
#860 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#934 0.000124 Rationality
#1748 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1868 0.000010 Bismark Analysis
#1902 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#2115 0.000063 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2186 0.000054 Ecomodernists
#2227 0.000043 Works in Progress
#2758 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#2911 0.000004 Populist Libertarians
#3256 0.000026 Persuasion Community
#3448 0.000019 Harper's Open Letter
#3918 0.000004 Anarachists
#3949 0.000004 Effective Altruism
#3950 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#5963 0.000004 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6243 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6317 0.000004 Degrowth
#7257 0.000006 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Crypto

#124 0.001100 IDEO Founder Collective
#144 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#304 0.000503 Crypto VC
#314 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#343 0.000006 Polkadot
#857 0.000077 Cosmos
#1304 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2074 0.000008 Public Goods Funding
#2326 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2505 0.000004 Crypto Journalists
#2780 0.000025 Crypto Infrastructure
#2813 0.000011 Decentralized Web
#2999 0.000004 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3420 0.000005 Ethereum
#4058 0.000007 Crypto Investing

Think Tanks

#390 0.000426 Earth Institute
#544 0.000231 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#600 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#661 0.000006 Belfer Center
#840 0.000195 Mercatus Center
#868 0.000006 Urban Institute
#1059 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1476 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1516 0.000006 Cato Institute
#1534 0.000073 Hoover Institution
#1547 0.000061 Atlantic Council
#1607 0.000080 Niskanen Center
#2097 0.000015 Adam Smith Institute
#2200 0.000065 Brookings
#3277 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#4258 0.000028 Council on Foreign Relations
#4709 0.000005 Hudson Institute
#4982 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#6389 0.000012 Center for American Progress
#6531 0.000005 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8678 0.000009 American Enterprise Institute
#8678 0.000009 National Bureau of Economic Research

Informal Community

#278 0.000353 Founders

Science

#540 0.000292 Epidemiology Journalism
#726 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1034 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2693 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#7201 0.000006 EconTwitter
#7648 0.000004 Biotech
#7984 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

system

#67 0.000255 Reality-Based Community
#152 0.000280 Baseline
#3200 0.000042 Think Tanks

Software Engineering

#280 0.000006 Rust
#1090 0.000004 Zig

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