People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

Starting treatment with Better Help, one of the most prominent “therapy-on-demand” apps to launch over the last few years, is easy, which is more or less the point. Like many of the businesses offering therapy online, the service promotes itself as a seamless way to access mental health services: “Message your therapist anytime, from anywhere.”

A viral clip of bullied Australian boy Quaden Bayle has triggered an outpouring of support globally.

Elites just pretend it’s not.

Leaked design plans reveal that the company is thinking about putting bright red and orange labels on false tweets by politicians and public figures.

This past summer, I booked a plane ticket to Los Angeles with the hope of investigating what seems likely to be one of the oddest legacies of our rapidly expiring decade: the gradual emergence, among professionally beautiful women, of a single, cyborgian face. It’s a young face, of course, with poreless skin and plump, high cheekbones.

Gathering and sharing news and updates is a bit of an art and it's a time consuming one too.

The effort is launching ahead of California’s March 3 primary and is one of the most unorthodox yet, blurring the lines between traditional campaign organizing and the distribution of sponsored content.

Facebook is designed to make you anxious, depressed and dissatisfied, three states of mind that make you more vulnerable to advertising and other forms of behavioral manipulation. Small wonder, the…

You’ve seen it before: A friend, acquaintance, coworker or random high school friend posts on social media about chemtrails or dubious science on global warming or a side-eye questioning of whether the pay gap is real. Commenters or friends rush in to question the faulty thinking—but instead of examining what’s being said and rejiggering their worldview, the original poster doubles down, pivoting to any other argument that solidifies their original point. What’s behind the double-down, and why is it so hard to resist?

After closing up shop that day, there was fear the bookstore might have to close permanently. But overnight, something unexpected happened.

A Vox Media executive took over a writer's Twitter account; Twitter won't say if they helped them do it.

Maybe it helps some other devs out there (to find an idea or something to work on), but here are the services that I pay for to run my business...

Social media users are more likely to eat fruit and veg – or snack on junk food – if they think their friends do the same, a new study has found.

The Intercept reports that TikTok waited nearly three hours after being notified of an apparent livestreamed suicide to notify local law enforcement.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to the platform over the weekend to answer a few user questions on his story, shared by The Verge's Chris Welch. Among the many things asked, the topic of an official iPad app for Instagram was brought up, and Mosseri explained why we haven't seen one yet.

Like about a billion other people, 17-year-old Samantha Mosley spent her Saturday afternoon perusing Instagram. She was taking a glance at the Explore tab, a feature on Instagram that shows you posts tailored for your interests based on algorithms that track your online activities and target posts to your feed.

The logo for Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune movie series was revealed at an event in France last night. It appears the movie's producers are rushing to remove it from the 'net, as photos of the logo are disappearing from popular Dune fan accounts with copyright enforcement notices left in their wake.

At long last, Facebook is letting us see the data it and other companies are collecting from you -- some of which has nothing directly to do with what you're doing on Facebook.

A network of profit-driven pages fuelling anti-Islamic sentiment was exposed two months ago but is still operating