Charlie Warzel
He is a co-author of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home. Previously he was a writer at large for The New York Times’ Opinion section and a senior writer at BuzzFeed News.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Shutterstock. Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility
They don’t make ’em like they used to!
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Odd Andersen / AFP / Getty We’re All Just Fodder
What Kate Middleton proved about the internet
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Dennis Stock / Magnum Flying Is Weird Right Now
Is flying less safe? Or are we just paying closer attention?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Samir Hussein / … Kate Middleton and the End of Shared Reality
Nothing is true and everything is possible.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Owen Franken / … I Am in Cloud-Storage Hell
Services such as iCloud and Google Photos are holding my memories hostage.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … Just Asking Questions About Kate Middleton
Wild speculation about her health is turning everyone into a conspiracy theorist.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Nicole Neri / … The Moneyball Theory of Presidential Social Media
Not even the president can bend the internet to his will.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: CSA Archive / … ‘Evidence Maximalism’ Is How the Internet Argues Now
A simple theory for why the internet is so conspiratorial
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Plagiarism Is the Next ‘Fake News’
Something much simpler than generative AI is driving the new culture war.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Zero Creatives / … A Second Life for My Beloved Dog
A simple iPhone feature unexpectedly changed how I grieved.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Year We Embraced Our Destruction
In 2023, fears about AI run amok commingled with memes about an allegedly deadly lemonade.
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Illustration by The Atlantic; Source: Getty. Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore
Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world
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Gabriela Bhaskar / The New York Times / … Please Stop Paying George Santos for Clout
Politicians should not be influencers.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear
The technology is less important than the ideas it represents.
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JOEL SAGET / AFP / Getty The Money Always Wins
Sam Altman has retaken the throne at OpenAI.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.
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Roger Kisby / Redux Sphere and Loathing in Las Vegas
My night in front of the world’s largest LED screen
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Great Social Media–News Collapse
Big Tech’s relationship with journalism is much more complicated than it appears.
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Photo-illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … AI Is About to Photoshop Your Memories
The smartphone camera roll is a digital diary. What happens when the images inside are more perfect than real?
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Irene Suosalo for The Atlantic This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
The global town square is in ruins.
