Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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The bad news is that we can't wipe offensive speech and trolls off the web. The good news is that trolls tend to turn on each other quickly.
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After analyzing millions of comments researchers can say for sure that the best way to deal with trolls is with deafening silence.
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Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.
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Outrage has become the web's most lucrative and eye-catching product, and quite a few news sites have now streamlined its distribution for those sweet, sweet clicks.
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Ad blockers aren't just a way to stop annoying banners pop-ups, and videos. They can also keep your devices safe.
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Celebrity tapes and nudes used to be shocking scandals on which tabloids pounced. Today they're frequently glossed over and that may be thanks to the technology that now lives in our pockets.
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Internet writer Adrian Chen decided to investigate professional trolls working for the Russian government and they played him like a fiddle.
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Even in the age of on-demand knowledge downloaded to a device in the palm of your hand, common misconceptions and urban legends persist.
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Techno-utopians sold a world on the narrative that the web was built for a free exchange of information. But that's never actually been true...
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Bureaucrats keep thinking about how to tame the internet, but the internet's very nature makes it trivial to resist their efforts.