Is “enshittification” real, or are we just refusing to take accountability for our own screen time? I sat down with NYC-based cyber ethnographer, designer, and NYU professor Ruby Thelot to debate his ...

y as people seek a new app to connect with others ahead of the TikTok ban. The Chinese app is less a TikTok clone and more of an Instagram meets Pinterest, featuring aspirational content and ...

Body cameras were supposed to hold police accountable. So why is police violence still rising? Why are cops almost never convicted using body cam footage? And why are so many people now demanding that ...

Over the past several days, Meta's Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies. The conspiracies range from skepticism about vote tallies in key swing states, to allegations ...

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On Friday, Tyler Bainbridge, the founder of Perfectly Imperfect, a popular recommendation newsletter, announced he was leaving Substack. He said that he was leaving in part over the platform's “follow ...

There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

Across the internet, young progressive internet users are embracing their inner MSNBC moms and proudly “libbing out." "Libbed out so hard at the Kamala rally tonight I’m feeling cautiously optimistic ...

Is 'Adrian Dittmann' Elon Musk’s burner account? Over the weekend, a Twitter Space hosted by right-wing influencer Laura Loomer devolved into chaos when an account named “Adrian Dittmann” joined the ...

Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend ...

Today, a group of former Twitter users who are fed up by the platform’s decline under billionaire control, are launching a new campaign to transform social media into a public good, free from ...

For the past few weeks, countless viral TikToks, YouTube videos, articles, and Reddit posts, have repeatedly claimed that family vloggers and parenting influencers are “fleeing” the state of ...