Clubhouse: A Study in Failed Content Moderation
The audio app quickly became a playground for trolls and harassment, driving many users away. When free speech becomes violent, Clubhouse revealed itself to be like many other platforms.
Social Media
For Women Fleeing Ukraine, Social Media Is a Lifeline
Women-organized Facebook groups have popped up to support the more than 6 million Ukrainian refugees with transportation, accommodations, legal issues, and much more.
The Rise of the Cleanfluencer
While your laundry is piled up in a corner waiting to be folded, social media serves up videos of put-together women in idealized versions of homemaking.
It’s Never Just a Joke
The just-asking-questions crowd, like "comedians" Joe Rogan and Whitney Cummings, wants you to think they're harmless. They're anything but.
Why Social Media Is a Special Kind of Hell for Teen Girls
Just as teens are beginning to discover their individuality, social media swoops in with unrealistic expectations that can subvert self-worth and have lasting ramifications.
TMI May Just Be Too Much to Process
There’s more information available to humans than ever. But it isn’t making us more informed thinkers.
Can Tech Actually Save Humanity?
Technology has developed and altered human life so swiftly that it’s left many of society’s institutions ill-equipped to handle its faults.
Lessons From a Fast, Furious Friendship With My Idol
The award-winning memoirist reflects on her intense, instantaneous social-media friendship with a favorite singer—only to be left to try to make sense of her just-as-sudden disappearing act.
Why Do We Stay Online?
We've seen social media sell our personal data and spread misinformation and hate, and our personal data. But we still can’t break up with it.
We Need to Raise a Generation of Media Literate Kids
‘I don't think that raising media literate kids is going to somehow save democracy. But I do believe that a generation which is able to see truth will be better advocates, organizers, and consumers.’