Kaitlyn Tiffany

Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall

The app that stoked the insurrection is gone, but something else is destined to replace it.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• January 18, 2021

MAGA World Is Splintering

Following the riot at the Capitol, Trump supporters are having an existential crisis on Twitter.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• January 8, 2021

Trump’s Tweets Were Never Just Tweets

After the Capitol riot, Twitter had no defense for keeping the president on the platform.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• January 6, 2021

The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs

Multilevel-marketing companies rely on social media for recruiting. TikTok just became the first major platform to ban it.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• December 17, 2020

Dressed for the Plague. No, Not This One.

Young people are weathering the pandemic by posting photos of themselves in 17th-century plague-doctor outfits.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• December 14, 2020

The Secret Internet of TERFs

After they were banned from Reddit, trans-exclusionary radical feminists became the latest of many toxic communities to simply build their own platform.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• December 8, 2020

Twitter’s Next Trump Problem

Trump is exempt from many of Twitter’s policies because of his status as a world leader. Come January, he could lose his favorite toy and most powerful weapon.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• November 12, 2020

QAnon Is Winning

Conspiracy thinking in America had a huge night on Tuesday.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• November 5, 2020

The Internet Won’t Be the Same After Trump

How the president changed life online—for better and for worse

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• October 30, 2020

This Will Change Your Life

Why the grandiose promises of multilevel marketing and QAnon conspiracy theories go hand in hand

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• October 28, 2020

Twitter Goofed It

By blocking the URL of a New York Post story without explanation, the company only stoked conspiracy theories.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• October 15, 2020

The Creepy Trump Meme Taking Over Twitter

Reactions to the president’s illness got weird fast.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• October 7, 2020

Reddit Squashed QAnon by Accident

Two years ago, Reddit had the internet’s biggest QAnon problem. Today, that problem is gone—but the company can’t really explain why.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• September 23, 2020

How Quickly Can a Girl Go Viral on TikTok?

Teens are making it big overnight, but that kind of fame can be a mixed bag.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• September 16, 2020

America’s Summer of Viral Meltdowns

Videos of people behaving badly have become so popular that filming one another is now a reflexive impulse.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• August 27, 2020

The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful

How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses  

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• August 18, 2020

Even Facebook Is Pining for the Internet It Destroyed

The tech giant’s new oddball social-media app is a testament to its power.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• July 30, 2020

The App of the Summer Is Just a Random-Number Generator

TikTok is on the chopping block. Instagram is pointless in lockdown. The best we can do is a hokey piece of software that takes us somewhere unexpected.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• July 21, 2020

Facebook’s Pandemic Feuds Are Getting Ugly

Two North Carolina groups are locked in a battle full of name-calling, conspiracy theories, and morbid memes.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• July 14, 2020

How a Fake Baby Is Born

For years, women on the internet have been writing conspiracy theories about celebrity pregnancies. What sparks them?

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• July 13, 2020