Visits: 16 The internet can’t get enough of nepo baby content. “My parents’ biggest rule is, like, I’m not allowed to have any public social media accounts,” Romy Mars says in a video she posted to TikTok. Ms. Mars, 16, …
She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.
Visits: 16 Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers. In the middle of a workday, Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., …
The Year in Micro News
Visits: 23 You may have forgotten — or wanted to forget — what happened on the internet in 2022. Here are some reminders. Plenty of big news happened in 2022. Frightening, fascinating, devastating and inspiring news with global implications. You …
Saluting in Solidarity
Visits: 21 As employees in tech face layoffs, an emoji meets its moment. When Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in late October carrying a sink, it seemed like that image might be the lasting one to exemplify the unfolding …
Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative
Visits: 28 Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.” What happens when they move in? It’s one thing to hope for a better community online, and another, very different one, to build it. Just ask the users …
On Twitter, Who Needs a Check Mark When You Can Have a Rat?
Visits: 20 Elon Musk wants Twitter users to pay to be verified. An artist offers a wry alternative. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, wants $8. After buying Twitter in a $44 billion deal just last week, he …
These Memes Make Books More Fun
Visits: 24 Or at least they make it easier to choose what to read. The title on the glittery gold graph reads: “I wanna be destroyed, fictionally.” Pink bars stretch up the page, evaluating the “level of sad” for each …
Team Molly: The Family After Molly Steinsapir’s Death
Visits: 21 Strapped in the front seat of an ambulance as her daughter lay injured in the back, Kaye Steinsapir took out her phone and began to type. “Please. Please. Please,” she wrote in part. “Everyone PRAY for my daughter …
Amorphous D.J.’d His Way Through 2020
Visits: 23 Jimir Reece Davis’s 2020 wasn’t going well even before the pandemic hit. In January, he found himself homeless in Los Angeles after his living situation became untenable. Then his mother, who has epilepsy, had a bad seizure and …
Donald Trump’s Twitter: What Happened?
Visits: 27 The labels did, however, provide insights into how those who run the platforms were thinking at the time. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, the platforms seemed to say, but the labels resembled just a few more additional fluorescent …