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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty America’s False Idols
Today’s tech billionaires think they’re self-made geniuses who deserve veneration. But we don’t have to believe that.
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Getty; The Atlantic Whistleblowing Is Broken
Like so much else, the act of informing on bad actors for good reasons has become tainted.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty A Prominent Vaccine Skeptic Returns to Twitter
A year after he was banned, Alex Berenson sued his way back. Are more lawsuits coming?
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Win McNamee / Getty Elon Musk Is a ‘Nightmare Client’
Musk cites three reasons for terminating his merger with Twitter. A new lawsuit points out why each of those reasons is extremely flimsy.
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Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty; The Atlantic Everything About Twitter v. Musk Is Utter Nonsense
This dispute is where all sanity and logic go to die.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Of Course Elon Musk Wanted Twitter
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla—and the richest person in the world—is obsessed with his version of free speech.
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Getty; The Atlantic Sorry, I Lied About Fake News
A false tweet really does move faster than the truth.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Tech Moguls Are Looking for a New Playground
Jack Dorsey’s decision to leave Twitter, like Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot to the metaverse, shows us where the internet is heading.
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Getty; The Atlantic It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda.
You don’t need fake accounts to spread ampliganda online. Real people will happily do it.
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The Atlantic How Long Will Twitter Cling to Its Dumbest Feature?
People love to hate the site’s “What’s happening” tab. Why won’t the company just let it go?
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Getty; The Atlantic Left-Wing Activists Are Bringing Back MAGA Twitter
An anonymous social-media account claims to “combat right-wing threats” to democracy, and recently started fundraising through a PAC.
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Getty / The Atlantic You Really Need to Quit Twitter
How could I have succumbed to this common, embarrassing habit that just about everyone on Earth knows is a scourge?
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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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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 Year That Changed the Internet
In 2020, the need to contain misinformation about COVID-19 pushed Facebook and Twitter into a role they never wanted—arbiters of the truth.
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Vanessa Saba What I Have Seen Running the FacesOfCOVID Twitter Feed
Throughout my months chronicling those lost to the pandemic, I’ve had the honor of bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of the lives we have lost.
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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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The Atlantic Twitter Goofed It
By blocking the URL of a New York Post story without explanation, the company only stoked conspiracy theories.
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The Atlantic The Creepy Trump Meme Taking Over Twitter
Reactions to the president’s illness got weird fast.
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The Atlantic What I Learned in Twitter Purgatory
I study online-speech rules for a living. And then my own account was suspended.
