Politics and social media were inextricable this week. Joe Biden announced his dropout via X and other social platforms —... more

Minutes after a gunman attacked Donald Trump at a rally, conspiracy theories flourished on social media. Did Trump fake it?... more

Kick, a is home to some of the most reprehensible behavior on the internet. Creators have live-streamed themselves accosting people... more

For the past several years, influencer Lily Chapman has been plagued by a relentless community of women online. They congregated... more

An online smear campaign painted a top Stanford researcher as a censorship supervillain, whose goal was to silence free speech... more

Over the past few months, the term “brain rot” has gone from essentially meaning chronically online, to a fully fledged... more

The record-breaking Instagram account @world_record_egg has returned to publicly express its support for Palestine. Trump joins TikTok and immediately amasses... more

Meet the powerful centimillionaire who dreams of a sovereign San Francisco where tech millionaires wear gray T-shirts to signal their... more

Have you been on Facebook lately? It’s weird and overrun with bizarre, AI-generated, spammy clickbait. Jason Koebler, co-founder of 404... more

This week, TikTok creators sue the US government over free speech, Bumble tells women to get busy, YouTube’s CEO wants... more