Can the Left Win YouTube?
A new cohort of left-wing video creators is smart, savvy, and entertaining. Is that enough to counter the internet’s alt-right trolls?
A new cohort of left-wing video creators is smart, savvy, and entertaining. Is that enough to counter the internet’s alt-right trolls?
A mysterious murder reveals the ways in which the video-sharing site has spread conspiracies of all kinds—very much including those created by rightwing supporters of President Trump.
“The Other Two” portrays a micro-generation that’s too young for Gen X complacency and too old for YouTube fame.
The InfoWars conspiracy theorist has been banned from a slew of sites. But he's just the tip of a rotten iceberg.
What Nasim Najafi Aghdam’s social media content reveals about art and life on the internet
The vulnerabilities that Parkland conspiracy theorists are exploiting are baked into the video site’s DNA.
How Instagram took us away from 2017
When Google promises to "curb" extremism on its lucrative video platform, it means nothing more than keeping advertisers happy.
The social media star, beloved of One Direction fans, guides us through gay millennial culture
The problem with racial equivalencies