Algorithms and misogyny: How Latin American teenagers are exposed to toxic content
Monitoring carried out by two Brazilian research websites shows how, subtly, sexist discourses land on TikTok
Reddit culture, video games, and Discord: What role did the internet play in the radicalization of Charlie Kirk murder suspect?
Utah’s governor accuses social media and other platforms of being behind every assassination attempt in recent years, but experts say it’s a much harder phenomenon to explain
Adults who collect children’s toys: The Labubu phenomenon exposed
These collectibles, sold in blind boxes and the successors of the famous Sonny Angels, have sparked a craze among consumers aged 15 to 40. Some observers claim their success is due to the fact that they are a way of escaping the chaos and confusion of the modern world
In search of ‘Celebrity Number 6’: How the internet went crazy for Leticia Sardá, a former Spanish model
An online community of 50,000 people searched for an unknown woman for five years. A few days ago they found her: she was a waitress from Tenerife and her life was about to change
Narcissistic men with a victim mentality who believe in conspiracy theories: Study shows that ‘cryptobros’ really do exist
A notable number of cryptocurrency investors tend to present typical dark personality traits including Machiavellianism and psychopathy, according to a large survey published by the scientific journal Plos One
Reddit is preparing to sell shares to the public. Here’s what you need to know
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It’s one of the first online companies to offer shares to its contributors — the ‘Redditors’ who comment on its boards and the moderators who manage them
The strange punishment imposed in this country for parking badly
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Chinese authorities considered a financial fine to be an insufficient sanction and have devised a peculiar method: attaching a suction cup on cars
What happened to GameStop, the company that made Wall Street tremble?
The video game company with which the meme stock phenomenon was born, the subject of the movie ‘Dumb Money,’ has tightened its belt but is operating at a loss
‘Dumb Money’: A great comedy about the financial French revolution against Wall Street
Craig Gillespie tells the story of a large group of small investors who united on social networks to deliver a crushing blow to the stock market investment firms
Craig Gillespie and the virtual fraud that shocked the world: ‘Many thought they were playing in the same conditions as Wall Street, and that’s not the case’
EL PAÍS spoke with the filmmaker behind ‘Dumb Money,’ the story of the Reddit users who in 2021 made a fortune by ruining investment funds
Why do we like to pop plastic bubbles?
Contemporary ways of finding fulfillment are strangely conformist: ASMR videos and watching loops of repetitive actions
The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges
Organizers of the blackout, which began on Monday, say Reddit’s changes threaten to end key ways of historically customizing the platform — which relies heavily on the work of volunteer moderators
Kicking toxic people off social media reduces hate speech on the internet
A Facebook study shows that deleting 100 ‘insult’ accounts had a positive impact on viewership
Can’t escape school in your dreams? This is the meaning of the nightmare that keeps humanity awake
That classroom you attend in your sleep is a metaphor from the past that serves to unburden the problems of the present
US Supreme Court weighs liability shield for internet giants
The tech industry is facing criticism from the left for not doing enough to remove harmful content from the internet and from the right for censoring conservative speech
Why Leonardo DiCaprio should win an Academy Award
The eternal nominee might finally pick up his first Oscar for Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’