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A Minecraft Player Set Out to Build the Known Universe, Block by Block
Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth.
The Midterm Election’s Most Dominant Toxic Narratives
Misleading and divisive posts about the Nov. 8 midterm vote have flooded social media. Here are three prevalent themes.
The Work of Online Volunteers
Moderators’ work on Reddit and Facebook is crucial but not paid. We should be creative in how we compensate them.
What Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit Reveals About Women’s Progress in Tech
Silicon Valley is losing one of its most visible, outspoken and powerful women. Any gains have been incremental at best.
The Enduring Afterlife of a Mass Shooting’s Livestream Online
Dozens of recordings of a 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, remain online, in a sobering reminder of the internet’s permanence.
How Civil War History Explains Memestocks
In the 19th century, small investors played a big role in finance. Wall Street took it away. Redditors are trying to get it back.
My Parenting Philosophy? There’s No One-Size-Fits-All.
Packaged methods can’t prevent the frustrations of parenting.
Hating Your Job Is Cool. But Is It a Labor Movement?
Inside the rise and fall of r/antiwork — the Reddit community that made it OK to quit, but couldn’t quite do anything else.
Decoding Dickens’s Secret Notes to Himself, One Symbol at a Time
A letter Charles Dickens wrote in his mystifying style of shorthand had gone unread for over a century. Computer programmers helped scholars decode it.
Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Twitter, Meta, Alphabet and Reddit
The panel investigating the attack on the Capitol is demanding information from Alphabet, Meta, Reddit and Twitter.
Wordle Is a Love Story
The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.
Reddit I.P.O. Is a Step Closer After Confidential Filing to Go Public
The company announced it had confidentially filed paperwork for an I.P.O., but without disclosing financial details.
They Died From Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started.
The social media profiles of anti-vaccine victims of the pandemic have made them and their families targets of trolling, even after their deaths.
Maryland Mayor Is Charged in ‘Revenge Porn’ Case
Andrew Bradshaw, the mayor of Cambridge, on the state’s Eastern Shore, posted nude photos of a former partner on Reddit, along with degrading comments and racial slurs, prosecutors said.
Quitting Your Job Never Looked So Fun
Workers across social media are enjoying the vicarious thrill of chewing out a terrible boss. Some are even doing it.
Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice
And why, even though I hate it, small talk is so important.
TikTok Users and Coders Flood Texas Abortion Site With Fake Tips
To protest Texas’ new abortion law, activists said, they pranked a website set up by the state’s largest anti-abortion group.
Silicon Valley’s Thin Skins and Giant Egos
Ellen Pao, the former C.E.O. of Reddit, talks Big Tech boys clubs, content moderation and workplace culture.
He’s a Dogecoin Millionaire. And He’s Not Selling.
Glauber Contessoto went looking for something that could change his fortunes overnight. He found it in a joke cryptocurrency.
Language, Please! Salty Feminist Stitch Book Is Too Much for Michaels.
The craft retailer pulled a pattern book from its stores after employees noticed some of its designs contained swearing.
Reddit’s ‘Roaring Kitty’ Will Speak at GameStop Hearing
The trader who pumped up the stock on the internet will appear next week with the leaders of the Robinhood app and hedge funds that lost big during the frenzy.
Do Fed Policies Fuel Bubbles? Some See GameStop as a Red Flag
Analysts warn that low-interest rates are promoting speculative bubbles. The Fed itself has downplayed the possibility that it’s behind asset prices.
Reddit, the Talk of the Internet, Raises $250 Million
The start-up, which was at the center of a recent stock market frenzy, was valued at $6 billion in the new funding round.
Reddit’s 5-Second Ad Was an Unlikely Super Bowl Winner
Other companies spent millions on ambitious commercials made for advertising’s biggest day. Reddit’s blip of an ad, made in under a week, connected.
Wall Street’s Most Reviled Investors Worry About Their Fate
Short sellers — self-described financial detectives who make money when companies fail — were already worried about their success and safety. Then GameStop happened.
The Hopes That Rose and Fell With GameStop
Fueled by amateur traders and online enthusiasm, the struggling retailer’s shares took investors on a ride like no other. For them, it ended in different ways, including apathy, defiance and regret.
Quest for Hollywood Fame Splits Redditors at Heart of Market Frenzy
The moderators of the Reddit message board WallStreetBets battled over movie deals after their sudden fame with the GameStop mania.
Pumps and Dumps and Chumps
Please, stop falling for fake populism.
Are GameStop’s ‘Degenerates’ Just Getting Started?
They may have lost their bet. But they haven’t lost their political power.
Why GameStop Reminds Mark Cuban of the ’90s
The billionaire says the current stock market is reminiscent of the first dot-com boom. “Everybody’s a genius in a bull market — until they’re not.”
Deep-Cleaning Videos Are Getting Grosser
Stuck at home, people are excavating the mold in their dishwashers and the hair in their drains for your viewing pleasure.
Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?
The stock market isn’t the economy, but that’s hard to remember in a bubble.
The GameStop Rebellion
What began as a story about Reddit versus Wall Street has since revealed itself to be something larger. We have an explanation of what happened and what it means.
Reddit C.E.O. on GameStop and the Forum Shaking Up Wall Street
Steve Huffman on the subreddit causing chaos on Wall Street.
Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize
Ted Cruz. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The rush by both parties to side with young traders disrupting the markets reflects the broad recognition of the impulses driving American politics.
Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not
Reddit communities grow powerful in plain sight. Why do they keep taking the world by surprise?
The Stock Traders of Reddit and TikTok
They are young, they are fearless and they are forcing everyone to pay attention.
Elon Musk, GameStop and the C.E.O. as Internet Troll
The billionaire Mr. Musk has inserted himself into the confounding stock market drama and solidified his role as the ultimate insider outsider.
The ‘Roaring Kitty’ Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets
A Massachusetts man who goes by “Roaring Kitty” on social media helped fuel the frenzy around GameStop. His $53,000 investment in the company briefly reached $48 million in value.
The GameStop Reckoning Was a Long Time Coming
This week, gleeful online hordes turned the stock market upside down. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.
How GameStop’s Reddit-Fueled Rise May End
Let’s have an honest conversation about GameStop.
4 Things to Know About the GameStop Insanity
It’s been a weird few days in the stock market, where a video game retailer has suddenly become the center of attention.
GameStop Stock Trading: 4 Things to Know
It’s been a weird few days in the stock market, where a video game retailer has suddenly become the center of attention.
GameStop Stock Soars as Reddit Investors Take On Wall St.
GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall Street tactic to put the squeeze — on Wall Street.
Who Gets the Banhammer Now?
In a single week, some of the internet’s biggest platforms banned users and groups they had tolerated for years. What changed?
Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web
The internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable.
Reddit’s Steve Huffman on Banning ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
Steve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder and chief executive, says new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission.
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
The influential pro-Trump community broke the rules on harassment and targeting, said Reddit, which also banned other groups.
The Complex Debate Over Silicon Valley’s Embrace of Content Moderation
Many in tech cheered when Twitter added labels to President Trump’s tweets. But civil libertarians caution that social media companies are moving into uncharted waters.