As the pandemic rages across the country, one team of fact-checkers contends with a post-truth dystopia.

The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.

A two-part story on Bill Gates and his revolutionary machine.

Increasingly, what we’re after on social media is not narrative or personality but moments of audiovisual eloquence.

Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

A typo investigation.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending.

By the time I got access to the model, it was late July, 2020. In the fifth month of quarantine, having recently moved home to face my teenage journals, I wasn’t sure if I missed talking to strangers or to Omar. But I wanted to know if, with enough prodding, I could turn GPT-3 into either, or at least convince myself that I had.

Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.

Bitcoin partying at an Orlando hotel with worshippers of the blockchain.

A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.

The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.

Black employees say Amazon has a race problem.

A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.

While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time.

Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.

Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.

An oral history of Wikipedia.