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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Biden inherited White House social media accounts drained of trust by four years of Trump tweets. His administration is trying to return to normal through a more disciplined approach to social media. Insider spoke exclusively to Rob Flaherty, head of the Biden White House's Office of Digital Strategy. President Joe Biden and his staff are determined to make the White House's Twitter sane ...

For musician and artist Jesse Jo Stark, 2020 was supposed to be the year . She’d been touring like crazy to promote her music, which sounds—in truly the best way—like a Creamsicle doused in whiskey and set aflame with a Zippo in a dive bar. She’d created a tiny line of merch called Deadly Doll for her albums; she was planning to finally perform at the music festivals she’d grown up attending as a California teen. And then, of course, the universe said “nope.” “I finally got where I wanted to be,” says the LA native. “I was performing my butt off. I was getting some stream...

The Biden White House is very very not online. What does it mean for the presidency as an institution?

A Patriot’s Lament, a Conservative’s Hope January 14, 2021 Esther O’Reilly After last week’s madness, I had some thought of banging out a Take within a few days. That plan went by the wayside as more data came out and more dominoes continued to fall. Now a single week out from January 6th, it feels like we’ve already run through multiple weeks’ worth of news cycles. I, for one, am tired. Literally, physically tired. More than ever, I feel the hyper-accelerated pace of news in the digital age, the exhaustion of it, the burden on one’s time and attention. It’s enough to make one...

In 2020, Russia’s Memes Went Worldwide In Putin’s case, with great power comes great meme-ability. Twitter, Facebook, TikTok / MT The world may have been imploding around us in 2020, but at least we had the Russian internet to keep us entertained.  This year, there was no shortage of witty, irreverent and just plain odd memes from Russia — perhaps because in lockdown Russians had more time on their hands to work their meme magic.  A few of them even spread beyond Russia’s borders, a testament to the power of memes to unify people across cultures. Or maybe the r...