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June 25, 2020
Matt Ford
Why Isn’t the Supreme Court on Twitter?
The high court’s low profile on social media is a mistake—and a missed opportunity.
May 29, 2020
Alex Shephard
Mark Zuckerberg Comes to Trump’s Defense
Casting himself as a free speech warrior, the Facebook CEO reveals his company’s increasingly rightward bent.
May 27, 2020
Alex Shephard
Twitter Can’t Rein In Donald Trump
Fact-checking the president—or even deleting his tweets—is a futile exercise.
May 13, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Coronavirus Is Making Us All Camgirls
For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera.
April 13, 2020
Adrian Daub
The Rise of the Lurker
We don’t quite leave social networks we don’t trust. We stay for the friends who still post. We lurk.
September 18, 2019
Jasper Craven
Russian Trolls Love Targeting U.S. Veterans
Building on congressional intelligence, a new report offers a broad view on the dirty tricks trolls use to hook American servicemembers.
August 16, 2019
Dustin Kurtz
Why Amazon’s Twitter Ambassadors Are So Sad
They're real people, yes—and they're also a window into Amazon's approach to labor.
July 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Trump Assembles His Gang of Social-Media Deplorables
Thursday's "summit" shows the increasingly paranoid president is desperate for allies who back him unequivocally.
June 3, 2019
Jake Flanagin
How YouTube Became a Breeding Ground for a Diabolical Lizard Cult
A mysterious murder reveals the ways in which the video-sharing site has spread conspiracies of all kinds—very much including those created by rightwing supporters of President Trump.
February 13, 2019
Kia Gregory
How Videos of Police Brutality Traumatize African Americans and Undermine the Search for Justice
February 1, 2019
Una Hajdari
Serbian Journalists Are Under Attack. Does the International Community Care?
Supported by the U.S. and EU, praised at Davos: President Aleksandar Vucic is on a roll. No one seems to want to contemplate the appalling assaults on press freedoms.
August 21, 2018
Alex Shephard
Why Jack Dorsey’s Apology Tour Backfired
The Twitter CEO is creating controversy on a media campaign designed to quell it.
April 3, 2018
Magazine
Yascha Mounk
Verboten
Germany’s risky law for stopping hate speech on Facebook and Twitter
May 10, 2016
Magazine
Elspeth Reeve
Fame Is Other People
What happens when the abyss of social media stares back.
February 17, 2016
Magazine
Elspeth Reeve
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
That feeling when you hit a million followers, make more money than your mom, push a diet pill scheme, lose your blog, and turn 16.
January 15, 2016
Magazine
Navneet Alang
The Peach App Is Dead, But It Taught Us Something About Social Media
October 21, 2015
Johannah King-Slutzky
Tyler Oakley’s Radical YouTube Memoir
The social media star, beloved of One Direction fans, guides us through gay millennial culture
June 13, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
A Defense (Sort of) of Twitter
I don't tweet, but I see why some of you do
June 10, 2014
Miles Kohrman
The Smart Fan's 2014 World Cup Social Media Guide
All the feeds you need to be following, right now
September 6, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Iran Tweets, and the World Gets Way Too Excited
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