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How Joey Salads could meme his way into Congress
The YouTuber brings his pranks — and reactionary dog-whistles — on the campaign trail.
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Nomads travel to America’s Walmarts to stock Amazon’s shelves
To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys
The Mormon Church vs. the internet
Leaving a community isn’t easy, but a subreddit and QuitMormon.com makes the process simpler and more human
Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions
At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max
How the Boeing 737 Max betrayed its pilots and passengers
The sound of justice
The original records of Nazi atrocities were at risk of being lost - this is how they were saved
Andrew Yang is the candidate for the end of the world
He’s a fringe presidential hopeful who thinks automation is the country’s greatest threat — and the answer is to give every American human $1,000 a month
Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin — so we went looking for them
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Webcomics: an oral history
Featuring the artists behind XKCD, Questionable Content, Dinosaur Comics, and more
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The golden age of YouTube is over
The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content
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Instagram needs stars, and it’s built a team to find them
To ramp up IGTV, Instagram’s money is on old-fashioned talent scouting
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Running with the pack: a journey to the center of Coyote Peterson
Can Coyote Peterson bring his millions-strong following to Animal Planet?
He filmed the killing of Eric Garner—and the police punished him for it
The story of Ramsey Orta is one of continued and unending police harassment
The Strange Case of Eugene Gu
Behind one of Twitter’s most outspoken social justice personalities is a history of abuse
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
In Arizona, Facebook’s content moderators get through the day with sex, drugs, and guns
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Automated background checks are deciding who’s fit for a home
But advocates say algorithms can’t capture the complexity of criminal records
How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities
Front Porch Forum’s secret? Staying local
Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
Prime and punishment
Riding in Waymo One, the Google spinoff’s first self-driving taxi service
Going on a coffee run with Waymo One
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Tesla will live and die by the Gigafactory
Inside the massive factory where Tesla will soon make 60 percent of the world’s lithium-ion batteries
An academic reported sexual harassment. Her university allegedly retaliated
She claims her once-promising career was sidelined
Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn boondoggle
Gov. Scott Walker promised billions to get a Foxconn factory, but now he’s running away from it
The secret life of teen scooter outlaws
Teenagers are flocking to electric scooter services like Bird and Lime, ignoring requirements that riders be age 18 or older
How a nuclear stalemate left radioactive waste stranded on a California beach
Nuclear waste is all dressed up with nowhere to go
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Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock
Skeptics say full autonomy could be farther away than the industry admits
The unlikely story of a meteorite hunter who became a fugitive from the law
The rock that fell to Earth
Investigation: Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook’s addiction support groups
Huge groups of vulnerable people looking for help are a rehab marketer’s dream
Meet the scientists keeping a global watch for nuclear explosions
If anyone blows up a nuke, this is how we’ll know
Inside Waymo’s strategy to grow the best brains for self-driving cars
The Google spinoff has a head start in AI, but can they maintain the lead?
The internet made sex work safer. Now Congress has forced it back into the shadows
Offline and back into the dark
In Egypt, dating apps are a refuge for the LGBTQ community, but they can also be a trap
As LGBTQ Egyptians flock to apps like Grindr, Hornet, and Growlr, they face an unprecedented threat from police and blackmailers who use the same apps to find targets. The apps themselves have become both evidence of a crime and a means of resistance.