Alina Gonzalez, a former employee of the popular lifestyle blog Cupcakes and Cashmere, has released one of the longest Instagram stories I personally have ever seen to publicly hash out the circumstances of her firing. In the words of Alina’s Instagram story: “Every. Single. BOSS. I have spoken to. Who, hashtag, work…
Because we now live in a dimension that is two parts Hieronymus Bosch’s The Last Judgment and one part Alice Through the Looking Glass, absurdity now rules the day. And so, it falls to me to report that a bill inspired by Trump’s “covfefe” tweet is making its way through Congress.
Digital security and its discontents—from Hillary Clinton’s emails to ransomware to Tor hacks—is in many ways one of the chief concerns of the contemporary FBI. So it makes sense that the bureau’s director, James Comey, would dip his toe into the digital torrent with a Twitter account. It also makes sense, given…
The president’s supporters enjoy him because he frequently “speaks his mind,” especially on Twitter, openly and without regard for “political correctness” or the “truth.” On Thursday, however, the carefree tweeting style of the president and his aides were in clear and unambiguous conflict with statutory prohibitions…
Kim Kardashian has been consumed by 1989. Not the actual year but the look of the year or, perhaps more accurately, an idea of what the year should look like in photographs. The actual year is arbitrary, merely a point to describe Kardashian’s new photographic aesthetic. Her newest obsession, the stylized…
Active duty and retired members of the United States Marine Corps are being investigated for sharing nude photos of women—many of them fellow Marines—on a secret Facebook page. Some of these photographs were purportedly taken without the knowledge and consent of the subject.
Idaho Judge Randy Stoker recently ruled that Cody Herrera, a man convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl, could be released on probation under the rarely enforced state law that he not engage in sex outside marriage for its duration. In his decision, he mused that the rape probably happened because of “social media.”
Last Saturday, comedian Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live and, in his opening monologue, likened supporters of Donald Trump to Chris Brown fans. He explained that in each case, fans remain steadfast even if they “don’t condone the [individual’s] extracurriculars.” Of course, folded into the joke is a critique of…
On December 24, 2016, a 16-year-old named Reagan tweeted something no teen had ever tweeted before (probably): she had decorated an entire bible for her boyfriend, using excellent teen handwriting and brightly colored illustrations. The tweet begat faves; the faves begat retweets. The faves and retweets begat a bunch…
Today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took questions from Twitter users about what they want the company to do better in 2017. Dorsey seemed receptive to one idea that Twitter’s power users have been begging for: the ability to edit tweets. This is an awful idea.
In an unfortunate turn of events for democracy, global stability, and the many individuals he has blocked, Donald Trump will continue to tweet as president, according to incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
On Sunday, a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina, fired shots inside a pizzeria in northwest Washington, D.C. Armed with an assault rifle, he later told police he wanted to “self-investigate” a fraudulent election conspiracy theory connected to Hillary Clinton.
Since late September, Bana Alabed, a seven-year-old girl from war-ravaged Aleppo, has narrated her experiences on Twitter. The account, begun by her mother, accumulated over 100,000 followers as Bana delivered stark and harrowing messages of life amidst brutal chaos. But as of today, the account has disappeared.
It’s a fact: most of America votes for the Instagram content.
A chiseled, bleached blonde man in a muscle tank beamed at me and 83,000 other people from behind a camera in his darkened living room.
Facebook knows everything about you. What if they could diagnose your state of mind and suggest articles, or heck, medical treatment based on the facial expressions in your profile photos?
In July, 8 months after Raf Simons’ exit, Christian Dior chief executive Sidney Toledano told the New York Times, “I had it in mind that a woman designer might be interesting for a while now.” Maria Grazia Chiuri, formerly the longtime co-creative director of Valentino, is “very practical,” he said. “Very…
Washington D.C.—On Saturday, across the street from Omni Shoreham Hotel, where this year’s Family Research Council-sponsored Values Voter Summit was being held, groups of high-school girls in oversized blazers and too-tight french braids, and high school boys in too-tight button-down shirts and oversized “Make America…
Following a public finger-wagging from an advertising watchdog group, the Kardashians have seemingly cleaned up their shady practice of not labeling sponsored posts as ads so as not to be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission.
