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A new Pew Research Center survey finds online communities are filling real gaps in people’s lives, especially for young adults. But most members don’t feel close to the people they find there, and many Americans still see digital connection as a lesser substitute for the real thing.
A 37-country Pew survey finds growing concern about political division and manipulation—even as people continue to value the information and participation platforms make possible.
Social life is becoming something Americans have to schedule, finance and deliberately maintain, rather than something that happens around the edges of ordinary life.
The manosphere is moving beyond openly hostile commentary about women into fitness, dating advice, appearance and financial ambition. New research shows how ordinary content can introduce young men to increasingly rigid ideas about masculinity.
The fifth slide of Stefon Diggs’ Instagram carousel became a referendum on masculinity — and the architecture of social media helped make it one.