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Iran Out-Trolled the Troller in Chief

April 10, 2026

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How Fake People Became Real Influencers

April 10, 2026

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It’s Not Gambling, It’s ‘Girl Math’

April 1, 2026

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The Worst-Case Scenario for AI and the News Is Already Here

March 27, 2026

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What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?

March 27, 2026

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The Tension That Defines Modern Life

March 27, 2026

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A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 25, 2026

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The Meme-Washing of RFK Jr.

Nicholas Florko

March 24, 2026

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Canceled by Hinge

Annie Joy Williams

March 23, 2026

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What Trump’s America Looks Like From China

March 2, 2026

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Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE

February 10, 2026

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Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 9, 2026

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Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship

Donald Moynihan

February 3, 2026

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A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Keith Humphreys and Jonathan Caulkins

February 2, 2026

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The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

January 30, 2026

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The New Shadowbanning Panic

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 28, 2026

A stylized illustration of a cracked smartphone against a dark-blue background. The phone displays what appears to be a TikTok-style video interface with text reading "ICE OUT" visible at the top. The image is heavily obscured by colorful digital-glitch effects—horizontal bars and rectangular blocks in cyan, magenta, purple, and teal—that fragment and distort the screen, suggesting censorship or digital interference. The phone has visible cracks across its screen, and the overall aesthetic conveys themes of social-media suppression or content moderation.

The Online World Where Iranians Were Free

Nahid Siamdoust

January 23, 2026

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Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once

January 6, 2026

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Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

January 2, 2026

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How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation

December 19, 2025

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Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment

Kaitlyn Tiffany

December 18, 2025

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Is This the End of Kids on Social Media?

December 4, 2025

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Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors

November 24, 2025

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

December 2025 Issue

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MAGA’s Group-Chat Problem

David A. Graham

October 22, 2025

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The Great Friendship Flattening

October 16, 2025

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Avoiding Ultra-Processed Foods Is Completely Unrealistic

October 13, 2025

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Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?

October 9, 2025

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The Publishing Industry’s Most Swoon-Worthy Genre

Rebecca Ackermann

October 5, 2025

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How to Think, Not What to Think

Sian Leah Beilock

September 19, 2025

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The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video

September 11, 2025

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YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

August 22, 2025

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MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It

August 22, 2025

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The Culture War Over Nothing

Kaitlyn Tiffany

August 15, 2025

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The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

August 13, 2025

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The Tech Novel’s Warning for a Screen-Addled Age

Sarah Rose Etter

August 6, 2025

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