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The penny challenge? National Rape Day? Urban legends on social media apps like TikTok are usually hoaxes — so why do we believe them?

In the time it takes you to read this story, Senator John Cornyn will probably have posted another tweet. Matt McClain/Getty Twitter launched in 2006, but didn’t really find its footing as a social media platform until March 2007, when it became the talk of that year’s South by Southwest festival. The site quickly transformed from a widely derided showcase for irrelevant narcissism in 140-character bits—an easy refrain at the time was that Twitter existed for users to tell the world what they had for lunch—to something more expressive, expansive, and often downright weird. (Eventually...

Fri 12 Feb 2021 02.30 EST In 2018, the American writer Patricia Lockwood published an essay entitled “How Do We Write Now?”. The piece was an attempt to reckon with the damage done to a creative mind by years of excessive exposure to the internet. Of her efforts to reclaim some mental space from the endless swirling absurdity of online life, she wrote: “If I look at a phone first thing the phone becomes my brain for the day […] If I open up Twitter and the first thing I see is the president’s weird bunched ass above a sand dune as he swings a golf club I am doomed. Th...

Illustration: Allison Corr Although a classic Valentine’s Day standby, the conversation heart is a feat of engineering we don’t often take time to appreciate. Necco Sweethearts have gone through hell and back to make it to store shelves this year, following the closure of the Necco plant in 2018, the purchase of the Sweethearts brand later that year by Spangler Candy Company, the transfer of delicate conversation-heart-printing equipment from Massachusetts to a new home in Ohio, a delay in 2019 production, damaged machinery, higher demand leading to shortages in 2020, and now, finally, a ...

When Jon Ossoff won his runoff election last week, becoming the youngest senator-elect since Joe Biden way back in the 1970s, there was an immediate media clamor over his Twitter account, which, in classic millennial fashion, he was foolish enough to actually use. As Seth Maxon reported for Slate, Ossoff was on Twitter pestering Pitchfork about reviewing a new record by Imagine Dragons, boasting about reaching zero inbox, and, worst of all, sharing an anime version of Les Mis. He also used it to follow @Dril, the semi-pseudonymous Twitter writer who, more than anyone else, embodies 21st cent...