The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.

The veteran music publicist and radio host is also the indefatigable voice behind the most viral prompt questions on Twitter.

In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?

Seth Abramson’s viral meta-journalism unreality.

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

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

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?

The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.

“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.

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.

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”

Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.

Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment.

It’s been a rough year.

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.

An interview about Black Lives Matter and the last 18 months of activism in America.

On the service’s multiple origin stories.

Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.