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    In Defense of the Times’ New Social-Media RulesThey’re fine.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Only Social-Media Rules You Need Are This Kid’s Guide to RoastingDon’t roast somebody if you are ugly.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    The Millennial Walt Disney Wants to Turn Empty Stores Into Instagram PlaygroundsMaryellis Bunn, the 25-year-old co-founder of the Museum of Ice Cream, says retail is dead and experiences are the future.
    By Anna Wiener
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    Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.
    By Max Read
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    The Ten Commandments of Using Social Media During Natural DisastersThou shalt not blindly retweet.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Court Rules That Politicians Blocking Followers Violates Free SpeechDonald Trump might want to reconsider.
    By Brian Feldman
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    India Is Going to Search Instagram and Facebook to Find Tax FraudstersBe careful what you hashtag.
    By Brian Feldman
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    This YouTube Prank Star Might Be the Worst Neighbor on the PlanetHe recently lit a fire in his swimming pool that was so large the flames reached the top of his house.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    How Instagram Made Father’s Day UnbearableSocial media has made a complicated holiday unavoidable.
    By Lauren Johnson
  10. It’s Time to Redraw the Line Between Violent and Nonviolent Political ActivismInstead of finger-pointing or empty expressions of civility, the best reaction to today’s shooting is a clear refusal to support or incite violence.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Facebook’s Tips for Detecting Fake News Mostly Just Muddle the ProblemThe whole problem is that people are sharing “trustworthy,” “accurate” news stories that are, in fact, insane.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Why the White House Is Boosting Mike CernovichThe White House wants to fuzz the boundaries between mainstream, respectable news outlets and utterly gonzo ones as much as possible.
    By Jesse Singal
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    People Spread Fake News Because They Believe Anything Their Friends PostA new study shows that in determining how much to trust a given news story, people care way more about who shared it than where it came from.
    By Jesse Singal
  14. The Problem With the Democratic Party in One Milquetoast TweetThe bill that would unravel Barack Obama’s signature law and throw millions off of their insurance needs to be…revised?
    By Eric Levitz
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    ‘A Demagogue for the Age of Social Media’: A Historian Discusses Trump’s TwitterHistorian David Greenberg, author of Republic of Spin, on the historical precedents of Trump’s social-media obsession.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Social Media Is Making Your Teen Unhappy, Because Of Course It IsA new study found one hour on social media a day makes teens significantly less content.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  17. The Tragic Farewell Messages From Aleppo While the City Was Under Siege“This may be my last video.”
    By Jared T. Miller
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    Why So Many People Believe Obama Encouraged ‘Illegals’ to VoteHere’s a case study in the rich ecosystem of nonsense that causes people to believe fake-news stories.
    By Jesse Singal
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    Maybe the Internet Isn’t a Fantastic Tool for Democracy After AllFake news is the easiest of the problems to fix.
    By Max Read
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    Does Mark Zuckerberg Use Facebook?The titans of social media are having some trouble grappling with the world-changing effects of their creations.
    By Max Read
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    Donald Trump Won Because of FacebookSocial media overturned the political order, and this is only the beginning.
    By Max Read
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    Where Are You, Essena O’Neill?It has been a year since the then-19-year-old Instagram star made her dramatic announcement about quitting social media.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    A Comprehensive Guide to Describing Yourself in 3 Fictional CharactersWondering how to participate in the “three fictional characters” meme? Here’s a guide!
    By Kelly Conaboy
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    Black Social-Media Users See Discussion of Race Far More Than White Users DoWhat black and white users see in their feeds is often very different.
    By Brian Feldman
  25. We Followed Twitter Pariah and Gamergate Hero Milo Yiannopoulos Around the RNC“It was the best thing they could ever have done for me,” Yiannopoulos says about the Twitter ban.
    By Kenny Wassus
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    The Dads of VidConTalking to the most out-of-place attendees at social media’s biggest party.
    By Adam Popescu
  27. No-Social-Media Policies Don’t Work, As Anyone Who Works Under One Will Tell YouYour employees probably aren’t going to abandon their work if you let them check Facebook. Also they are just going to do it anyway.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  28. Why Bother?More than half of people don’t actually read the links they share on social media.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Mark Zuckerberg’s Ghost Haunted the Harvard 2006 ReunionSearching for the second-most-successful person at the Facebook founder’s ten-year reunion.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  30. Is Facebook Trying to Turn You Into a Globalist?Mark Zuckerberg’s recent denunciation of Donald Trump’s politics raises questions about the platform’s “editorial” bent.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Talking to a Teen About Social MediaAre teen girls’ lives online really as bad as Nancy Jo Sales writes? I talked to a teen girl to find out.
    By Logan Sachon
  32. Some Doctors Tweeting About Drugs Aren’t Disclosing PaymentsLike the rest of the internet, Doctor Twitter is becoming overrun with sponsored content.
    By Sam Stecklow
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    DJ Khaled Talks Snapchat Stardom, Major Keys, and Knowing Your They“I always tell myself I gotta be inspired by myself.”
    By Allison P. Davis
  34. How Brazil’s Gleeful Dark Humor Helps It CopeBad news can be, oddly, good news for the Brazilian internet and its armies of online comedians.
    By Vincent Bevins
  35. #riptwitter
    Some Fear the Death of Twitter As Company Considers Algorithmic TimelineIf a Twitter power-user complains, but the new timeline algorithm never shows anyone, did it happen?
    By Chas Danner
  36. This Is Your 2016 Social Media Cleanse DietFix your social media problems with our five-point plan.
    By Max Read
  37. Report: American ISIS Supporters Are Good at Social Media, Bad at Evading ArrestA new report shows that American ISIS supporters are a surprisingly diverse group.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. Why Breaking News Means Old Stories in Your Facebook Feed What’s really at stake isn’t social media’s relationship to time — it’s news’ relationship to it.
    By Lilly Lampe
  39. Essena O’Neill Takes Down Fake Web RelationshipsEven after passing on from social media, former Instagram star Essena O’Neill is taking aim at fake online relationships — even as her detractors take aim at her.
    By Kyle Chayka
  40. machine age
    In a Pivot-Happy World, We Need to Let Twitter Be TwitterIn praise of the uproarious confusion the company is now trying to tame.
    By James Gleick
  41. the internet
    Facebook Will Just Ask You What You Want to SeeNovel approach.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  42. Joe Biden Does His Best Paul Ryan ImpressionIt involves bicep curls.
    By Jaime Fuller
  43. Prosecutors in Boston Marathon Bombing Case Forced to Define ‘Mad Cooked’The jury looks at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s tweets.
    By Jaime Fuller
  44. new york’s finest
    Police Discouraged From Posting Naked Men on TwitterSocial-media school for New York’s finest.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  45. new york’s finest
    The NYPD Wants Its Officers to Try to Be Funnier on TwitterThis will probably end badly. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  46. Watching Ferguson: Violence Erupts in the StreamFollowing Ferguson on social media, where images of rage interrupt the usual sports chat and movie-casting rumors.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  47. the internet
    ‘Michael Jeter’ Makes Final All-Star Game Appearance, According to CBS NewsNaturally, Twitter went nuts.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  48. new york’s finest
    NYPD Still Getting the Hang of This Twitter ThingA cop provoked a transportation safety advocate over the weekend.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  49. when hashtags go wrong
    No One at the NYPD in Trouble Over Backfiring HashtagYou tweet, you learn.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  50. when hashtags go wrong
    The #MyNYPD Hashtag Is Not Going So Well for the PoliceWhen social media outreach goes wrong.
    By Joe Coscarelli
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