Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding
He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?
The Risk Makers
Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.
The Conscience of Silicon Valley
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.
How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.
Pet Project
Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?
The Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.
Roseanne Barr Just Can’t Shut Up
“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”
The Strange Case of Eugene Gu
A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.
Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.
A Macedonian Tennis Racket
How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.
One Person’s History of Twitter, From Beginning to End
“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”
The Toxic Drama of YA Twitter
Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter
Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.
“A Honeypot for Assholes”
Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment.
Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?
It’s been a rough year.
Access Denied
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.
In Conversation: DeRay Mckesson
An interview about Black Lives Matter and the last 18 months of activism in America.
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
On the service’s multiple origin stories.
‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’
Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.
My ISIS Boyfriend
A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.
The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas
A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.
That Goddamned Blue Bird and Me
On Twitter’s pleasures and perils.
Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief
On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.
How Much Tech Can One City Take?
How a burgeoning tech workforce swallowed San Francisco.
Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City
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.
