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Facebook’s New Controversy Shows How Easily Online Political Ads Can Manipulate You

By Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott

Disinformation Is Becoming Unstoppable

By Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott

The Internet Is Bonding Over Embarrassing Screen Names As AIM Signs Off Forever

By Melissa Locker

What It Feels Like to Have Your Passwords Hacked By Hundreds

By Zoë Quinn
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We Are All Internet Bullies

Most of the time, we may not even know it

By Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner

John Oliver Is Calling on You to Save Net Neutrality, Again

Oliver wants the Internet to come together to save net neutrality

By Melissa Locker

GOP Rolls Back Online Privacy Rules

Congressional Republicans have voted to scrap a series of online privacy protections approved during the waning days of the Obama Administration by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The rules, which were set to take effect...

By Alex Altman

Why It's Harder to Go Viral Than You Think

It’s fashionable to talk about ideas as if they were diseases. Some pop songs are infectious, and some products are contagious. To that end, advertisers and producers have developed a theory of “viral” marketing, which...

By Derek Thompson

The Myth of 'Going Viral' on the Internet

It's a lie we tell ourselves

By Derek Thompson

U.S. Cyber Policy Makes Americans Vulnerable to Our Own Government

'The government wants to leave holes in our security so it can walk through them later'

By Oren J. Falkowitz

Pepe the Frog's Creator: I'm Reclaiming Him. He Was Never About Hate

Taking back the frog who has been abused by the Internet's worst people

By Matt Furie

This Adorable Cat Looks Just Like a Vampire

Her name is Loki

By Melissa Locker

How a Band Called The Internet Became One of the Best Things on the Internet

Syd tha Kid and Matt Martians talk to TIME about their accidental name, their new album "Ego Death" and how to flip a protest song on its head

By Eliza Berman

Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 2

1. Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job.By Andy Baio in the Message2. Cost-cutting is killing U.S. military innovation.By Dan Steinbock in Project Syndicate3. We should streamline the patchwork of state licenses and...

By The Aspen Institute

This Is How to Stalk Your Teenage Children Online

One mother comes clean

By Belinda Luscombe
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