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Judging Parents Online Is a National Sport

Stephanie H. Murray

February 16, 2023

An image of an adult with their head in their hands overlaid with a notification bubble with a heart in it

Work In Progress

America’s Teenage Girls Are Not Okay

February 16, 2023

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‘Scar Girl’ Is a Sign That the Internet Is Broken

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

February 7, 2023

An illustration of comments under a Scar Girl video

Trump and Facebook’s Mutual Decay

January 25, 2023

A photograph of Donald Trump speaking into a microphone

Elon Musk Can’t Solve Twitter’s ‘Shadowbanning’ Problem

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 17, 2023

Screenshots of Elon Musk's Twitter account fading into shadow

Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?

December 23, 2022

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This Is What It Looks Like When Twitter Falls Apart

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 22, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are Bait

December 9, 2022

Elon Musk's face distorted on a computer screen

Social Media Is for Strangers Now

December 7, 2022

Fans on their phones at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 3, 2022

It’s Not Filter Bubbles That Are Driving Us Apart

December 7, 2022

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Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand the First Amendment

December 3, 2022

Tucker Carlson next to the U.S. Capitol

Leaving Twitter Is Not a Virtue—But Staying Isn’t Either

December 3, 2022

The Atlantic Daily

The State of Free Speech

Kelli María Korducki

November 30, 2022

Elon Musk in thought

Instagram Is Over

November 30, 2022

The Madness of Twitter

November 22, 2022

The Era of ‘Stay and Fight’ Twitter Is Here

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 21, 2022

A photograph of Donald Trump using a smartphone.

Why Elon Musk Is Blowing Up Twitter’s Business

James Surowiecki

November 18, 2022

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Twitter’s Slow and Painful End

November 17, 2022

Musk, SBF, and the Myth of Smug, Castle-Building Nerds

November 15, 2022

Go Ahead, Joke About the Pandemic

C. Brandon Ogbunu

November 12, 2022

The Atlantic Daily

Is the Status Update Over?

November 11, 2022

Tweets by Elon Musk from April 25, 2022, including one that reads "I do love humanity"

After the Twitter Storm, Calm

November 11, 2022

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How Twitter Shapes What You Know, Even If You’ve Never Used It

November 11, 2022

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California

The Age of Social Media Is Ending

November 10, 2022

A photo illustration of a fallen domino, stylized to evoke a social-media speech bubble.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover, Explained in 19 Elon Musk Tweets

November 8, 2022

Elon Musk against a Twitter-blue background.

What I’ve Learned From Four Years of Open DMs

November 8, 2022

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10 Things Elon Musk Should Do

November 7, 2022

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What Happens When Everything Becomes TikTok

Arthur Holland Michel

November 7, 2022

Can Twitter’s Failings Spur a Better Social Media?

November 4, 2022

Are the Libs Really Leaving?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 2, 2022

The Sole Proprietor

Xochitl Gonzalez

November 1, 2022

Welcome to Geriatric Social Media

November 1, 2022

The Cold Dose of Reality Awaiting Elon Musk

November 1, 2022

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Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend on Twitter

Damon Beres and Charlie Warzel

October 31, 2022

There May Be No Twitter Comeback for Trump

David A. Graham

October 28, 2022

Donald Trump using a phone

How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter

October 27, 2022