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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Judging Parents Online Is a National Sport
Whether they share their joys or their struggles, parents just can’t win on social media.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Twitter Was the Ultimate Cancellation Machine
If the platform dies, how will people find quick justice?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic To Grandmother’s TikTok We Go
Older influencers who share laundry hacks and old family recipes are helping Gen Z get through the holidays.
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Martin Parr / Magnum TikTok Told Me to Adopt a Pigeon
#PigeonTok is rebranding the unloved birds as pets, not pests.
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The Atlantic; Getty We’re All Capable of Going ‘Goblin Mode’
The Oxford Word of the Year tells a concise story about how many of us are doing these days.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are Bait
He doesn’t actually want transparency on the social-media platform.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Elon Musk’s Buffoonery Misleads His Critics
What I learned while binge-watching social media’s hottest melodrama
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Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty Social Media Is for Strangers Now
As Instagram and Facebook fade from relevance, the connections between friends are fading online too.
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Getty; The Atlantic It’s Not Filter Bubbles That Are Driving Us Apart
When people come face-to-face with what others believe, they may not like it.
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The Atlantic The Internet, but for Hot People
Partiful is one of many products adopting the trendy aesthetic, calling itself “facebook events for hot people.”
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Instagram Is Over
The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.
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Jeenah Moon / Bloomberg / Getty Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going Down Posting
The disgraced crypto titan has nothing left to say. That isn’t stopping him.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh
As Twitter crumbles, Tumblr is welcoming back the internet’s weirdos.
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Getty; The Atlantic Twitter’s Slow and Painful End
Although a full collapse is unlikely, a different kind of death is possible.
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Ben Hickey Beware the ‘Storification’ of the Internet
We all need a lesson in close reading and a dose of skepticism—especially online.
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Scott Olson / Getty Is the Status Update Over?
As Twitter descends into chaos and Meta sheds thousands of jobs, online sharing may be going the way of MySpace.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Age of Social Media Is Ending
It never should have begun.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty What Happens When Everything Becomes TikTok
Even the most advanced automated systems can’t catch every bit of extreme content.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The GIF Is on Its Deathbed
The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.
