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I misjudged the Web site, which can be a pleasing oasis of text-based communication.

Josh Wardle created the viral game as part of his ongoing quest to design online spaces that don’t devolve into spam and swastikas.

The lockdowns seem to have sharpened our appetite for parking garages, gas stations, dead malls, shuttered Kmarts, and paintings by Edward Hopper and David Hockney.

On the Internet, “cursed energy” refers not just to creepy images—the phrase has come to signify increasingly generalized feelings of anxiety and malaise.

Big technological shifts have always empowered reformers. They have also empowered bigots, hucksters, and propagandists.

Within the hall of mirrors that polite society creates and social media amplifies, the subreddit provides a safe space in which one might receive a response to that ur-question: What do people really think of me?

From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces about the ways in which social media is affecting our lives and our politics.

The online sleuths of Fridge Detective examine, in minute detail, the interiors of one another’s refrigerators.

How do we fix life online without limiting free speech?