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Sometimes, misleading information is easy to spot, traveling in the same conspiracy-theory-slicked grooves it has for decades. The same ideas that...
The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban made it to President Joe Biden’s desk on Wednesday...
Line up a few years’ worth of tragedies and disasters, and the online conversations about them will reveal their patterns. The same...
Trying to keep track of controversies in today’s splintered online world feels like trying to analyze each of the bubbles in a perpetually boiling...
TikTok, like any place on the internet where a ton of people are watching and sharing and competing for attention, is best understood in terms of...
Search around for ways to make a little extra money online, and you might find yourself at one of many sites that offer to pay you to take surveys....
If you’ve ever posted anything on the internet, chances are that your data has already been scraped, collected, and used to train AI systems like...
A tiny fluffy monster kneels in wonder beside a lit candle. Two small pirate ships battle inside a churning cup of coffee. An octopus crawls along the...
Barbara O’Neill, who makes a living as a holistic health educator, has given lectures claiming that cancer is caused by a fungus and that she has...
Twenty years ago last Sunday, Mark Zuckerberg launched “TheFacebook,” an online directory designed to let his fellow Harvard students search for...
I didn’t find a therapist when I first felt I might need one, nor when I finally found the energy to start Googling the therapists with offices near...
Copying has always been a part of internet culture. Sometimes it’s ethical, sometimes not. It’s almost always incentivized: Once social media...
Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on Apple’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have spread like an annoying chain letter...
This week, videos featuring former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s 2002 missive “Letter to America” were posted to TikTok, leading a wide...
“Algospeak” is an evasion tactic for automated moderation on social media, where users create new words to use in place of keywords that might get...
After Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,000 and taking at least 150 hostages, and Israel declared...
Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet. If you’re part of Generation Z — that is,...
The work of trying to minimize the influence of harmful misinformation is both exhausting and essential. Big pushes, like the one Meta undertook in...
Right next to the For You page on TikTok lives the TikTok Shop, the new and inevitable evolution of the company’s attempts to make money off of how...