On the internet dating pool.

A cautionary inquiry into the unchecked hive mind.

How Craigslist dealers do business in New York City.

How the Justice Department killed a $2.5 billion industry.

The story of a serial swatter.

On the online mug shot industry, which posts mug shots of anyone arrested (regardless of conviction) and charges $30 to $400 to have the photo removed.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

The author’s long-running relationship with the grotesque.

Are we at war? The U.S. government’s evolving response to cyber security and its impact on privacy.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

Exploring the relationship between cats and the Internet in Japan.

An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know.

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

The people who run these platforms have to make decisions about the greater good—whether they want to or not.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.

Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.

In 2010, an art dealer claimed he hid a chest of gold and jewels in the Rockies. At least four people have died looking for it.

Inside the world of high-priced online reputation management.

The dark world of online murder markets.

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online.

On feminism and the limitations of outrage online.