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Byline: Hannah Knowles, Taylor Lorenz Donald Trump on Monday called rapper Ye a âreally nice guyâ who is âcomplicatedâ but has âa good heart,â praising the celebrity whose antisemitic remarks [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Yunus Duygulu didn't use social media much until he was laid off from his job as a newspaper reporter. But after watching hours of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Corrected: A previous version of this article misidentified the organization contracted to produce a line of 'Skibidi Toilet' drones and remote-control vehicles. It is the National Entertainment [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell, Taylor Lorenz, Justine McDaniel, María Luisa Paúl Jaelyn Richter, a 27-year-old therapist in the Minneapolis suburbs, was painting her basement with her husband on Sunday when she [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - While big budget movies vie for the top spot at the box office this summer, billions of people are clamoring to watch a YouTube [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified Karl Folk as a researcher at Augsburg University. Folk is a student at Augsburg, but [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Correction: After this article was published, The Washington Post received additional information about the methodology used for the YouTube survey and determined that it does not meet [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz For the first two decades of the social internet, lurkers ruled. Among Gen Z, they're in the minority, according to survey data from YouTube. Tech industry insiders [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz With the passage of the bill that could effectively ban TikTok, ByteDanceâs other major product, the short form video editor CapCut, is in jeopardy. Multiple House aides [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok drove $14.7 billion in small-business ownersâ revenue in 2023 and contributed $24.2 billion to U.S. gross domestic product last year, according to a company-paid report issued [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok drove $14.7 billion in small-business ownersâ revenue in 2023 and contributed $24.2 billion to U.S. gross domestic product last year, according to a report issued Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Small-business owners, educators, activists and young people who say they benefit from TikTok were scrambling on how to respond Wednesday after the House passed a bill that [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Joseph Arujo, a 20-year-old content creator and student in Los Angeles, began seeing 2023 recap videos in his feed last month, he began scouring his hard [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The biggest online phenomenon of the year is an animated video series that primarily appeals to children, filled with obscure internet and gaming references that most adults [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Every morning before school, Evelyn, a seventh-grader in suburban Kansas City, props her iPhone up against the mirror of her vanity, applies a series of makeup and [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein and Taylor Lorenz On Dec. 20, 2022, Topher Olive went to a McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho, and ordered a limited edition 'smoky' double [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Taylor Lorenz, Naomi Nix and Joseph Menn In the weeks following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Twitter user @breakingbaht criticized leftists, academics and 'minorities' for [...]

Byline: Lauren Weber, Caitlin Gilbert and Taylor Lorenz A small group of conservative doctors has sought to shape the nation's most contentious policies on abortion and transgender rights by promoting [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Since she was a small child, Cam Barrett, now 24 and a social media strategist in Chicago, had her life documented online. First on [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Matt Taibbi, who was chosen by Twitter owner Elon Musk to write segments of the controversial 'Twitter Files,' announced Friday that he's quitting the [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - A flurry of headlines about a new social media app, Lemon8, which shares ByteDance as its parent company along with TikTok, pushed the app [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Gharidah Farooqi interviews a male politician for television, she does research and plans out her questions, as any journalist would. She is professional, well-dressed and asks [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Olivia Krupp, a sophomore at the University of Arizona, knew she wanted to write for the student newspaper since she started college. She was hoping to build [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz President Biden spent more than an hour this week at the White House with eight TikTok stars with a combined following of more than 67 million who [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The most prominent forum for men who consider themselves involuntarily celibate or 'incels' has become significantly more radicalized over the past year and a half and is [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Peter Jamison Children's hospitals across the U.S. are facing growing threats of violence, driven by an online anti-LGBTQ campaign attacking the facilities for providing [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The crypto world has had a rough summer. Prices of bitcoin and etherium have plunged in recent months. NFT mania has cooled after the market became flooded [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz People all across the greater Sioux Falls, S.D., area know Bryce Wollmann. At 6-foot-6, the 25-year-old operating room nurse is hard to miss, but it's his cult [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz 'Algospeak' is becoming increasingly common across the internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters on social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Twitch. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz and Elizabeth Dwoskin Women on Instagram are exposed to an 'epidemic of misogynist abuse,' according to a new report. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz WASHINGTON - On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine. National Security Council [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Joss Robinson, 18, a freshman at the University of Connecticut, wants to catch up on what his friends are talking about, he often turns to Twitter. [...]

In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, ''Birds Aren't Real.'' On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren't Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of [...]

Marissa Meizz, 23, was out to dinner with a friend in the East Village in mid-May when her phone started buzzing. She tried to silence it, but the texts kept [...]

Fueled by Gen Z, text-heavy meme posts, often paired with nonsensically unrelated pictures, are turning the photo and video app into a destination for written expression. LOS ANGELES -- Last [...]

The online influencer culture is starting to draw serious interest from big venture capital firms. But the real money could be in digital tools, not the personalities. Last summer, Tucker [...]

The social network is aiming to be a destination for creators and their viral memes. But TikTok and YouTube got there first. SAN FRANCISCO -- Over the past 18 months, [...]

Many people who have found fame on TikTok are struggling with mental health issues. Lately, it's been hard for Jack Innanen, a 22-year-old TikTok star from Toronto, to create content. [...]

Out of touch? Basic? A new term to describe a certain aesthetic is gaining popularity on TikTok. ''OK TikTok, I have a new word for you that my friends and [...]

A look behind the scenes at life in the Team 10 house. In the vast world of YouTube villains, there may be none as famous as Jake Paul. The 24-year-old [...]

A new service is designed to help formalize relationships that are typically forged through personal connections or cold DMs. The business of influence is professionalizing. Content creators are signing to [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Robert Van Winkle, who is better known as the rapper Vanilla Ice, held court online last week with more than 1,000 fans. In a rambling conversation, Mr. [...]

The moderators of the Reddit message board WallStreetBets battled over movie deals after their sudden fame with the GameStop mania. Late on Wednesday, a moderator of the popular Reddit message [...]

After a crazy run-up, the price dropped 72 percent over two days, putting it just 18 percent higher than it was at the start of last week. GameStop, amateur investors [...]

They are young, they are fearless and they are forcing everyone to pay attention. Zane Bannink, a high school senior in Wisconsin, said that he has used the Robinhood stock [...]

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. [...]

Top performers are raking in cash as the company seeks to compete against TikTok and similar platforms. In late November, Cam Casey, a TikTok star with over seven million followers, [...]

Merchandise with phrases like ''Battle for Capitol Hill Veteran'' could still be purchased on major e-commerce sites, a sign of how the platforms have struggled to remove the goods. The [...]

A perfect metaphor for a year of giving up and giving in. For years, sleep experts have held one piece of common wisdom above all else: that devices have no [...]

After years of being passed over by brands and management companies despite driving the internet's biggest trends, Black influencers in Atlanta are working to shift the paradigm. ATLANTA -- It's [...]