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Coldplaygate Is a Reminder That There’s No Escaping Going Viral
It doesn’t take a surreptitious phone camera to get caught in a viral video. Smartphones have cast a decentralized web of surveillance…
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Hamas, ISIS and Al-Qaeda: Indictment filed against alleged terror-supporter in northern Israel
The suspect was reported to police after his social media account posted a statement from Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida. Israel Police…
Business
Mom takes sons on first roller coaster, camera captures carnage
A mom has shared pictures of the moment her twin sons' first trip on a roller coaster took an unexpected turn. When Brittany Joy, along…
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Lifestyle
Gentle Parenting My Smartphone Addiction
On a recent weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, an art adviser in New York named Stephen Truax, to gossip about an…
Politics
Pakistan seeks YouTube ban on 27 opposition and journalist channels
Alphabet-owned YouTube has informed more than two dozen critics of the Pakistani government that it is reviewing a court directive seeking…
Business
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is necessarily interested in but which…
Politics
Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Posting as Politics
On June 24, at 6:50 A.M., Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social that might otherwise have been reserved for a diplomatic cable or…
Business
Lauren Sanchez wipes social media after marrying Jeff Bezos
Lauren Sanchez Bezos has deleted all her old photographs from Instagram and updated her profile with her new name after marrying…
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Unrelated image of injured man falsely linked to death of Kenyan killed in police custody
Kenyan teacher and blogger Albert Ojwang died in police custody in June 2025 after he was arrested over social media posts criticising a…
Politics
ABC Says Terry Moran, Suspended for Social Media Posts, Will Not Return
ABC News is cutting ties with the correspondent Terry Moran after he wrote derisive comments on social media that attacked President Trump…
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Warped Ways of Seeing “P.O.V.”
You open your short-form online video platform of choice and see: A woman dancing in pointe shoes with London’s Tower Bridge in the…
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Nick Offerman tears into Michael Flynn's son
Actor Nick Offerman clapped back at Michael Flynn Jr. after the son of retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn shared an edited…
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'What is 'holy airball'? Viral trend explained
Tried to shoot your shot and missed? Holy Airball. The trend is currently sweeping social media, with videos amassing millions of views…
Celebrity
Taylor Swift album rumor sends internet into a frenzy, but there's a catch
A rumor about Taylor Swift's album Reputation (Taylor's Version) has gone viral online, but it appears to be a doctored image. Newsweek…
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Dad left questioning his "sanity" over 7-year-old son's math homework
A dad ended up turning to social media for help after a question in his 7-year-old son's math homework left him questioning his "sanity."…
Celebrity
Kanye Gave Twitter an Exclusive Hit Single
One of the year’s most talked-about new songs, from one of the planet’s most influential musicians, is not available on Spotify, or Apple…
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Kelsea Ballerini snubbed at ACM Awards
Kelsea Ballerini didn't win any of the four awards she was nominated for at the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMs)—sparking outrage…
Politics
TikTok, Facing a U.S. Ban, Tells Advertisers: We’re Here and Confident
“TikTok is here — we are here,” Khartoon Weiss, the company’s vice president of global business solutions, told a packed warehouse of…
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Disinformation fuels support for Burkina Faso's junta leader in Nigeria
Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He has never left…
Politics
China’s Garment Factories Face a Tipping Point After New Tariffs
Liu Miao has sold clothing on Amazon to wholesale buyers in the United States for the past five years. That trade has come to an abrupt…
Politics
Video of John Fetterman arguing about plane seatbelt takes off online
A video that was filmed earlier this year that showed Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, arguing with a flight crew member…
Culture
Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
“Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life, offering a personalized hello from M3GAN, the…
Politics
My Brain Finally Broke
I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in…
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Christina Leitzel’s ‘Fun’ Prosthetic Eyes are Designed to Stand Out
As a maker of prosthetic eyes, Christina Leitzel was told as an apprentice to treat her craft much as an expert art forger would: create a…