“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.

Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?

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.

A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.

On Twitter’s pleasures and perils.

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

How a burgeoning tech workforce swallowed San Francisco.

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.

A story written about Twitter and one its founders, Evan Williams, when the company’s chief source of revenue was subletting desks in their partially filled office.

A profile of Jack Dorsey, co-founder (and displaced CEO) of Twitter. Dorsey’s latest venture, a mobile credit card system called Square that only officially launched in February 2011, already processes more than a million transactions per day.

How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.

When Conan O’Brien left NBC, he agreed to stay off TV for months and stay quiet about the network and its executives. The agreement contained no mention of social media, however. On the origins of a digital renaissance.

Can real activism happen on Twitter and Facebook? Malcolm Gladwell says no.