“Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.”
There exists a swarm of angry sports fans who maintain that they do not want to talk about Colin Kaepernick or the national anthem, and Barstool has cleared a space for them to gather and talk, mostly, about just how much they don’t want to talk about politics. They claim to be an overlooked majority — the vast market inefficiency that will richly reward anyone who will let them watch their games, memes and funny videos without having to feel bad about themselves. Barstool is their safe space.
Some players, from the start, were up front about admitting it was a hoax. Others insisted, to their graves, that the story was true, that the Lutz family had been haunted by something. It’s just that the something may not have been paranormal at all.
“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”
A profile of Harvey Weinstein.
An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.
How the writer works.
Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.
A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.
Memories from journalists he mentored.
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
On navigating the New York media world as a young journalist.
In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.
A history of the Village Voice.
What happened to film critic Armond White?
Inside a world where a user named Pizza can amass millions of followers, transform internet humor, get caught peddling diet pills in get-rich-quick schemes, and have her blog shut down—all before graduating high school.
Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.
How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?
The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.
Video-game designer Zoë Quinn in the aftermath of Gamergate, an act of web harassment with world-altering implications.
How a daredevil helicopter pilot helped birth modern news.
“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”
A conversation with Lucinda Chambers shortly after she was fired from British Vogue, where she had been fashion editor for the last 25 years.
