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Rethinking “the internet’s kindest place.”
Taylor Lorenz The Atlantic Oct 2018 25min Permalink
Is Stephen Miller serious?
McKay Coppins The Atlantic May 2018 30min Permalink
An investigation into the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency.
Adrian Chen New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 20min Permalink
Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment.
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink
A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.
Dune Lawrence Businessweek Mar 2016 20min Permalink
The story behind an online gamer’s suicide.
Alina Simone The Guardian Jan 2016 20min Permalink
The afterlife of a thoughtless, cruel insult.
Patrick Smith Buzzfeed Mar 2015 15min Permalink
A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?
Adrian Chen MIT Technology Review Dec 2014 15min Permalink
An author confronts her troll.
Kathleen Hale The Guardian Oct 2014 20min Permalink
How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.
Camille Dodero Gawker Feb 2013 Permalink
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.”
Adrian Chen Gawker Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The story of a bizarre—and bizarrely effective—smear campaign.
Joshua Davis Wired Apr 2012 25min Permalink