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Tech Media

The Not-So-Secret Life of a TikTok-Famous Teen

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

Rebecca Jennings Vox Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Tech

Bodies in Seats

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives.

Casey Newton The Verge Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Science Media

When a Fatal Grizzly Mauling Goes Viral

How much does the world need to know about a deadly bear attack? That question was tested in the Yukon last year, after the horrific loss of a mother and daughter caused a destructive media storm.

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Eva Holland is a Longform contributing editor.

Eva Holland Outside May 2019 10min Permalink

Tech

15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.

Nicholas Thompson, Fred Vogelstein Wired Apr 2019 40min Permalink

The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents.

“Stupid kids doing something stupid, simple as that. This is how many people in Baraboo remembered the whole ordeal to me four months later. What almost no one in town seemed interested in asking was, ‘Why were our kids stupid in this particular way?’”

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Apr 2019 35min Permalink

Tech

The Rise, Lean, And Fall Of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg

The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Media

My Love-Hate Relationship With Instagram

A profile of an influencer.

Sophie Elmhirst The Economist 1843 Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Politics Tech

Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News

Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.

Issie Lapowsky Wired Jul 2018 15min Permalink

Politics

How Houston Lost Its Mind Over a Trump Shirt

Outside a cookie shop in Houstons, a council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out.

Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Voiceless"

The intersection of life and social media in the future.

Emily Smith Hobart Feb 2018 10min Permalink

Crime

The First Social Media Suicide

A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.

Rana Dasgupta The Guardian Aug 2017 20min Permalink

Best Article Media

The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens

Inside a world where a user named Pizza can amass millions of followers, transform internet humor, get caught peddling diet pills in get-rich-quick schemes, and have her blog shut down—all before graduating high school.

Elspeth Reeve The New Republic Feb 2016 15min Permalink

Tech Travel

#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement

How life on four wheels became a brand.

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Monroe is a Longform contributing editor.

Rachel Monroe New Yorker Apr 2017 20min Permalink

Sex

‘Hot’ Sex & Young Girls

On the obsession with the sexual and social habits of American teenage girls.

Zoë Heller New York Review of Books Aug 2016 10min Permalink

Crime Tech Media

#jihad

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.

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Brendan Koerner on the Longform Podcast

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink

Selfies, Dating, and the American 14-Year-Old

Lily gets ready for her first date.

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Excerpted from American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Media

Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”

On the front lines of a dating culture dominated by right and left swipes.

Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Media

Hunting Rebecca Francis

The woman trophy hunter, notorious for her controversial “hero shot” beside a dead giraffe, profiled.

Kerry Howley New York Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Business Media

American Woman

The life of Kim Kardashian.

Vanessa Grigoriadis Rolling Stone Jul 2015 20min Permalink

Tech Media

Sexts, Hugs, and Rock 'N' Roll

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

Ellen Cushing Buzzfeed Jul 2015 30min Permalink

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