You have to be extremely online to understand the threat America faces now
Sometimes, as a reporter covering digital culture, I feel like I live in a world disparate from my friends and family. How do you, for instance, explain the vagaries and…
How to know if you (or Donald Trump) violated the First Amendment
The First Amendment provides a fairly wide swath of protection for certain kinds of speech and expression, but it’s not like you can get away with saying or doing absolutely…
QAnon is melting down after Joe Biden’s inauguration
Believers in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy have waited years for the storm to come. But on Jan. 20, 2021, as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the…
Trump pardons Anthony Levandowski, who stole trade secrets from Google
Donald Trump is on his way out of the White House, but that didn’t stop him from pardoning 73 people and commuting the sentences of another 70 people on the…
‘Democracy kicked his ass:’ Stephen Colbert looks back at the lowlights of Trump’s presidency
[embedded content] The day after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Late Show host Stephen Colbert told his studio audience that we had “four very interesting years in front of us.”…
After Twitter banned Trump, misinfo on the site fell dramatically
In the week following Twitter’s permanent ban of President Donald Trump, media intelligence company Zignal Labs found that the spread of misinformation on the social media platform took a sharp…
YouTube removes Trump’s latest video, blocks channel from posting for seven days
It’s been a bad week for President Donald Trump’s socials. First he was unceremoniously dumped by his longtime paramour Twitter. Then Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitch blocked him. Now YouTube…
Facebook vows to remove all ‘Stop the Steal’ posts, but just look at what happened last time
Facebook would like to stop “Stop the Steal,” this time for real. In a statement posted on Monday, the company announced that in preparation for Inauguration Day, it would take…
Twitter permanently suspends @TeamTrump after string of Trump tweets
Twitter kept its word. After permanently suspending the @realDonaldTrump account late Friday, Twitter also moved to suspend the @TeamTrump account. This followed a series of tweets quoting Donald Trump, and…
Discord bans Reddit-linked pro-Trump server tied to attack on the U.S. Capitol
We’re all judged by the company we keep. With that adage seemingly in mind, Discord moved Friday to ban a pro-Donald Trump server from its platform. TheDonald, as the server…