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Alicia Tatone How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts
In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
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Shutterstock Custom Photo Filters Are the New Instagram Gold Mine
How selling Adobe Lightroom presets took the “influencer” world by storm
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Shutterstock The Voting-Sticker Thirst Trap Is Here
“It’s egotistical, but I’m aware it draws the most attention, so why not try to use that to get people out there voting?”
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Shutterstock The Controversial Art of Relationship Tagging
Happy couples say it's a nice way to praise their better halves. Others find the practice nauseating.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP The Google Walkout Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Thousands of employees around the world left their desks today to protest sexual harassment. But they’re going to have to do a lot more to make lasting change.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP Instagram Is Teeming With Anti-Semitism
And some users say the platform isn’t properly addressing their concerns.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Twitter Should Kill the Retweet
The feature derails healthy conversation and preys on users’ worst instincts.
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John Altdorfer / Reuters The Pittsburgh Suspect Lived in the Web’s Darkest Corners
Robert Bowers was an avid user of Gab, a social network popular among white nationalists and the alt-right.
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TikTok TikTok Is Cringey and That's Fine
A social platform can’t scale without attracting normal users.
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Evan Agostini / AP This Meme Tricks People Into Registering to Vote
Kanye and Kim have not broken up.
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Instagram / PrasongTakham / Barry Blackburn / Shutterstock ... Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
The platform has cast itself as the internet’s kindest place. But users argue harassment is rampant, and employees say efforts to stem it aren’t funded well or prioritized.
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Phillip DeFranco / YouTube YouTube Stars Are Being Accused of Profiting Off Fans’ Depression
Viewers are outraged that some of the site’s biggest celebrities have partnered with a controversial online counseling service.
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Shutterstock Teens Are Being Bullied ‘Constantly’ on Instagram
Harassment on the platform can be uniquely cruel, and for many it feels like there’s no escape.
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@samepictureofatoaster The Teens Who Rack Up Thousands of Followers by Posting the Same Photo Every Day
A new meme format on Instagram is giving kids a low-pressure way to express themselves, make friends—and go viral.
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Getty Teens Are Protesting In-Class Presentations
Some students say having to speak in front of the class is an unreasonable burden for those with anxiety and are demanding alternative options.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Capturing the Magic of the Early Web, IRL
XOXO is the event that wants to make the internet a better place.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP The End Finally Comes for Alex Jones
Twitter’s permanent ban is an important symbolic gesture.
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Reuters / Lucas Jackson Twitter’s New Features Aren’t What Users Asked For
Tackling abuse should be priority number one, many say.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Has Changed How Teens View the News
Young people can see the president’s tweets as jokes, but they still often share his negative feelings about the press.
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Shutterstock Making a Living Before Making It Big on YouTube
In the tough ecosystem of social-media celebrity, wannabe stars are flocking to fledgling apps to stay afloat as they wait to make it big.
