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Inside the most toxic live-streaming platform + NATO influencers
Kick, a is home to some of the most reprehensible behavior on the internet. Creators have live-streamed themselves accosting people on the street, se…
1 year, 8 months ago
An influencer’s battle against her snark subreddit
For the past several years, influencer Lily Chapman has been plagued by a relentless community of women online. They congregated in a snark subreddit…
1 year, 9 months ago
Why do so many people think a top Stanford researcher is a CIA agent?
An online smear campaign painted a top Stanford researcher as a censorship supervillain, whose goal was to silence free speech and delete 22 million …
1 year, 9 months ago
Do you speak Brain Rot? How the internet is changing language
Over the past few months, the term “brain rot” has gone from essentially meaning chronically online, to a fully fledged meme and ironic slang languag…
1 year, 9 months ago
Is it ever okay to film strangers in public? + Trump’s new TikTok + MrBeast hits #1
The record-breaking Instagram account @world_record_egg has returned to publicly express its support for Palestine. Trump joins TikTok and immediatel…
1 year, 9 months ago
Is a Tech Utopia a Dystopia for Everyone Else?
Meet the powerful centimillionaire who dreams of a sovereign San Francisco where tech millionaires wear gray T-shirts to signal their allegiance and …
1 year, 10 months ago
'Zombie Facebook' takes over + ScarJo vs OpenAI
Have you been on Facebook lately? It’s weird and overrun with bizarre, AI-generated, spammy clickbait. Jason Koebler, co-founder of 404 Media and hos…
1 year, 10 months ago
Is the celebrity 'blockout' working? + TikTok creators sue the U.S.
This week, TikTok creators sue the US government over free speech, Bumble tells women to get busy, YouTube’s CEO wants creators to win Emmys, and Goo…
1 year, 10 months ago
What's up with Fake Podcast Ads, AI Audiobooks and the Audio Creator Economy?
Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman joins Taylor Lorenz to discuss the current state of audio and its creator economy. They discuss Spotify's impact and how cl…
1 year, 10 months ago
Are "Industry Plants" Real? + 'The Social Network' Sequel
Kanye West accused one of the most popular Twitch streamers, Kai Cenat, of being an “industry plant.” It perpetuated the idea that some internet cele…
1 year, 10 months ago