When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

An investigation into the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency.

How the woman who brought Westboro Baptist to Twitter came to question the church’s beliefs.

The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.

Santería or Vodou are explored as possibilities.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

The mainstreaming of livestreaming.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

The grim world of outsourced content moderation.

A profile of Perry Fellwock, a.k.a. Winslow Peck, who exposed the NSA in an 1972 article for Ramparts magazine.

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

A master troll on trial in New Jersey.

An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”

John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed.

A decade-long Internet hoax unravels.