The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise?

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

The cost of parents sharing their lives on Instagram.

We all die immediately of a Brazilian butt lift.

The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

Tavi Gevinson talks.

A Instagram-caption ghostwriter speaks.

The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.

A profile of an influencer.

Rethinking “the internet’s kindest place.”

Who is this person?

A Venezuelan cop who had previously starred in an action movie stole a helicopter and fired on the Supreme Court. He became a rebel folk hero, moving amongst safe houses with a small band of followers, until he was killed in a shoot-out that he broadcast live on Instagram.

A new kind of late capitalism.

How life on four wheels became a brand.

She has convinced her followers she is a pretty-in-pink naïf, an escort, an unhinged ex, an office drone, and, most recently, an expectant mother. None of it is real.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

“She scrolls, she waits. For that little notification box to appear.”

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

The life of Kim Kardashian.

Hanging out with a new celebrity class: the teen kings and queens of social media.

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

The strange, gun-filled life of the “King of Instragram,” a failed NAVY Seal trainee turned poker-playing playboy with an exiled fraudster for a father and two heart attacks already under his belt.

A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.