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He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?
Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink
Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.
Catherine Buni, Soraya Chemaly One Zero Sep 2020 35min Permalink
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.
Zach Baron GQ Aug 2020 20min Permalink
Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.
Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Feb 2020 10min Permalink
Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?
Megan Greenwell Esquire May 2017 20min Permalink
The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.
Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Jul 2019 10min Permalink
“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2019 20min Permalink
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.
Ashley Feinberg Huffington Post Jan 2019 20min Permalink
How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.
Ben Rothenberg Slate Feb 2018 20min Permalink
“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”
Mike Monteiro Medium Oct 2017 10min Permalink
Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
Kat Rosenfield Vulture Aug 2017 15min Permalink
Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.
Jesse Lichtenstein New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 10min Permalink
Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment.
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink
It’s been a rough year.
Nick Bilton Vanity Fair Jun 2016 20min Permalink
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.
John Herrman The Awl Dec 2015 25min Permalink
An interview about Black Lives Matter and the last 18 months of activism in America.
Rembert Browne New York Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink
On the service’s multiple origin stories.
Nick Bilton New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 25min Permalink
Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine May 2015 25min Permalink
A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.
Margarette Driscoll Sunday Times of London Mar 2015 10min Permalink
A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.
On Twitter’s pleasures and perils.
Kathryn Schulz New York Nov 2013 10min Permalink
On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.
Lindsay Zoladz Pitchfork Feb 2013 10min Permalink
How a burgeoning tech workforce swallowed San Francisco.
David Talbot San Francisco Magazine Oct 2012 20min Permalink
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.
Juliet Macur, Nate Schweber New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink