Internet

For our fifth annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME looked at contenders' impact on social media. Here’s who made this year’s list.

Christina Grimmie was a fan of talented Disney starlets like Hannah Montana who parlayed careers in children’s television into pop music. Aged 15 in 2009, Grimmie uploaded one of her first tracks to YouTube —...

Like the gunman who killed 50 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in March, the man who killed one person in a Poway, Calif., synagogue on April 27 announced his intentions on 8chan, an anonymous...

Scientists released the first ever picture of a black hole, and the Internet got to work

White supremacist ideology has lurked on the fringes for decades, but the Internet has given conspiracy theories unprecedented reach.

Two kids whose parents were indicted in a college bribery scheme are YouTubers