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The latest drama in “poverty porn” YouTube, explained

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Plagiarism doesn’t need AI to thrive online

By A.W. Ohlheiser

The Biden administration is allowed to talk to social media platforms again — for now

By Sara Morrison

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you

By Rebecca Jennings

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka

Are we too worried about misinformation?

By Peter Kafka

Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws

By Sara Morrison

Biden threatens Big Tech over its “national experiment” on children

By Shirin Ghaffary

Big Tech’s Russia problem

By Shirin Ghaffary

Does banning extremists online work? It depends.

By Shirin Ghaffary

One Good Thing: Knifepoint Horror, a collection of campfire ghost stories in podcast form

By Aja Romano

One Good Thing: A YouTube decluttering channel that made my sister and me quit screaming

By Athena Frost

How Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are handling the Taliban

By Shirin Ghaffary

Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more

By Peter Kafka

Trump’s lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google will probably go nowhere

By Shirin Ghaffary

YouTube’s kids app has a rabbit hole problem

By Rebecca Heilweil

Here’s just how much people have stopped talking about Trump on Facebook and Twitter

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

By Rebecca Heilweil

How YouTube swallowed the world

By Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary

How neo-Nazis used the internet to instigate a right-wing extremist crisis

By Adam Clark Estes

Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

By Rebecca Heilweil

Twitter joins Facebook and YouTube in banning Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

By Rebecca Heilweil

How fake news aimed at Latinos thrives on social media

By Shirin Ghaffary

YouTube is awash with election misinformation — and it isn’t taking it down

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why the Trump campaign is going all-in on YouTube 

By Rebecca Heilweil

Most Americans think social media companies are censoring people

By Shirin Ghaffary

How Trump and his son helped make a Covid-19 conspiracy theorist go viral in a matter of hours

By Sara Morrison and Rebecca Heilweil

How feds used a YouTube livestream to arrest a Portland protester

By Sara Morrison

The Trump administration’s flawed plan to destroy the internet as we know it

By Sara Morrison

Why Big Tech isn’t fighting Trump in public this time

By Peter Kafka

Big Tech thought the pandemic wouldn’t be political. Think again.

By Peter Kafka

Netflix went down for an hour for some users

By Peter Kafka

Facebook doubles down on removing coronavirus conspiracy theories

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rebecca Heilweil

YouTube makes $15 billion a year from ads — and pays more than half of that to video makers

By Peter Kafka

NikkieTutorials’ coming out brought out the best in the beauty community — for the most part

By Alex Abad-Santos

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Can an online star really make it in Hollywood?

Lilly Singh, Issa Rae, and others have made the leap from online auteurs to bona fide TV personalities. What happens to others who hope to turn followers and views into mainstream careers? We talk to a few who tried.

By Liz Shannon Miller

YouTube just made sweeping positive changes to its harassment policy. So why all the backlash?

By Aja Romano

A group of YouTubers is trying to prove the site systematically demonetizes queer content

By Aja Romano

The story behind Hot Ones, the interview show where celebrities choke down crazy-hot chicken wings

By Peter Kafka

Facebook and YouTube will keep letting politicians say what they want if it’s “newsworthy”

By Theodore Schleifer

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