Smutstep, Pokémon Waymo swattings, foodie calls, the Cornell 7 merch economy, LinkedIn selfies, TikTok's hot dog bandit, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

Every single video included in these news stories comes from a Ring camera or other home surveillance system. The people interviewed in nearly half a dozen local news segments all claim that kids have ...