Justin Ling

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Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine

On May 14, 2022, 18-year-old Payton Gendron sent out a link to a select group of online friends. It was an invite to a private Twitch stream, access to his running online...

Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims' Families Sue Meta, Reddit, Amazon

The families of four people killed at a mass shooting in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket have filed a sweeping lawsuit against a slew of major internet companies, weapon vendors, the family...

How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online

Toxic image board 4chan has managed to stay online for the past seven years—amid boycotts and advertiser flight, after being implicated in several mass shootings, even as it was identified as a...

ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet

In recent years, the Saudi government has tried to push international aviation regulators to forbid or prevent the public dissemination of ADS-B data, though that proposal hasn’t gone far. Musk, on the...

Russia Is Ramping Up Nuclear War Propaganda

For months, pro-Kremlin media has struck a bellicose tone, proposing that President Vladimir Putin take the extraordinary step of launching a nuclear strike against Ukraine. Across Russian state TV and social media...

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