Wired • July 11, 2024 How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand. “It makes me sick that I work for this company,” says one employee. By Paresh Dave and Vittoria Elliott
Time • October 24, 2023 Best Inventions of 2023 200 groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter, and a little more fun
BuzzFeed News • March 30, 2023 Hundreds Of Passengers Have Said They Were Sexually Assaulted On Cruise Ships. Their Stories Highlight Years Of Lax Security, Critics Say. Numerous passengers traveling on major cruise lines such as Carnival and Disney say in court documents that they were raped and assaulted — often times by crew members. By Tom Warren and Anna Betts
BuzzFeed News • March 9, 2023 Becoming Andrew Tate: The Life And Times Of The Internet’s Most Notorious Influencer Tate, who stands accused of human trafficking, comes from a family of violent, competitive men and high-achieving women. Those who knew him in his younger years are asking, “What happened to Andrew?” By Tom Warren and Ikran Dahir
Input • August 24, 2022 The Eve 6 Guy's letter of recommendation: therapy In the latest edition of his advice column, ’90s musician Max Collins opens up about his harrowing mental health struggle. By Max Collins
Input • August 3, 2022 Planet of the Bored Apes: Inside the NFT world's biggest success story Six months after their identities were revealed, the Bored Ape Yacht Club creators finally open up — and address the “f*cking evil” campaign against them. By Jessica Klein
Input • June 22, 2022 The spectacular implosion of Instagram’s No White Saviors The group — known for canceling missionaries and aid workers for alleged misdeeds — is embroiled in some very ugly scandals of its own. By Jessica Lucas
Input • March 30, 2022 How TikTok heartthrob William White's thirsty fandom turned toxic Feuding among White’s middle-aged women fans is getting ugly. Meanwhile, the influencer is raking in the cash. By Jessica Lucas
Input • March 16, 2022 His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent. Who was Thomas Buchler, the late creator of beloved Torah program TropeTrainer? And can anything be done to revive his life’s work? By S.I. Rosenbaum
Input • November 22, 2021 This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished. The author of ‘Pictures for Sad Children’ went AWOL after a 2014 Kickstarter drama. In an exclusive interview, she explains why she had to unplug from the internet. By Justin Ling
Input • November 16, 2021 The Bored Apes take Manhattan Members of Bored Ape Yacht Club, the internet’s hottest NFT project, monkeyed around IRL at Ape Fest 2021. How long can the party last? By Jessica Klein
Input • September 15, 2021 Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos. By Andrew Federov
Input • July 8, 2021 Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed The ‘cursed’ cabinet inspired a Hollywood film and spooked Post Malone. Now the man who first sold it on eBay in 2003 is coming clean. By Charles Moss
Input • May 16, 2021 All hail King Pokémon! Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in? By Brendan Bures
Input • April 22, 2021 Sex dolls are the new influencers Synthetic women are “running” their own Instagrams. There’s money to be made, sure, but what their human partners want most is respect. By Jessica Lucas
Input • March 4, 2021 I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it Being a cyborg is cool right now, thanks in large part to gee-whiz media coverage. But actually using a bionic arm can really suck. By Britt H Young
Input • February 6, 2020 The high-tech secret behind the stunning cinematography of ‘Uncut Gems’ How did the Safdie brothers keep a perpetually moving Adam Sandler in focus? With a device called the Light Ranger 2. By Charles Bramesco
