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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Spiderstock / … The Trump Decision Turned Content Moderation Into Shark Week
This is new, and this is bizarre.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty The Hot-Person Vaccine
The internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna—but why?
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Getty / The Atlantic Yahoo, the Destroyer
How the historic company became known as a bumbling villain of internet culture
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Shira Inbar / The Atlantic The Alt-Right Has Lost Control of Redpill
A classic meme about being radicalized is now so absurd that it means almost nothing at all.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic There’s a Better Way to Date Online—If You Like Trains
Inside NUMTinder, a Facebook dating group exclusively for people who are really into public transit.
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Jim Steele / Popperfoto / Getty / Wikimedia … You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet
How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing?
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Getty / The Atlantic The Truth Seekers Are Coming
Conspiracy theorists keep finding new ways to rebrand themselves.
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The Atlantic Who Would Volunteer to Fact-Check Twitter?
The site is hoping that its users will help stem the spread of lies—but first it has to inspire them.
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Getty / The Atlantic America’s Health Will Soon Be in the Hands of Very Minor Internet Celebrities
Local health departments are counting on lifestyle bloggers and fitness experts to get their message out.
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Pedro Nekoi Cottagecore Was Just the Beginning
Aesthetics Wiki is the internet’s one-stop shop for figuring out whether your vibe is more “cactuscore” or “synthwave” or “pastel goth.”
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YouTube / The Atlantic How the Pandemic Stoked a Backlash to Multilevel Marketing
YouTube vigilantes are taking consumer advocacy into their own hands.
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Paul Spella / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall
The app that stoked the insurrection is gone, but something else is destined to replace it.
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Getty / The Atlantic MAGA World Is Splintering
Following the riot at the Capitol, Trump supporters are having an existential crisis on Twitter.
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Win McNamee / Getty Trump’s Tweets Were Never Just Tweets
After the Capitol riot, Twitter had no defense for keeping the president on the platform.
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The Atlantic 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.
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Getty / The Atlantic 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.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic 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.
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Win McNamee / Getty / Katie Martin / … 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.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty / The … QAnon Is Winning
Conspiracy thinking in America had a huge night on Tuesday.
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The Atlantic The Internet Won’t Be the Same After Trump
How the president changed life online—for better and for worse
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