Online Shaming

Voting experts say it's not easy to remove options once they've been given to voters. But the fraught politics around alleged "fraud" complicate the outlook for coming elections.

Georgia's health department published a "misleading" graph showing a neat decline in coronavirus cases. An updated version shows the truth is messier.

Since the coronavirus outbreak began in the U.S., the practice of publicly shaming those who aren't following public health guidelines has become somethi...

It was 2013. Justine Sacco was sitting in an airport, waiting to board her plane. She was headed home to South Africa, where her family was from. She had a small Twitter account, with just over a…

Screenshots reflect the itch to document a moment that evoked emotion: amusement, incredulity, anger (or maybe all three).

It's 2020, and there were a lot of things that I wanted to write in 2019 that I never finished. Luckily, I can write one post and cover many of them under the guise of writing predictions for the...

Amid the DC riots, Trump supporters also gathered at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, according to reports and a source who works in the Capitol.

The Mimi Groves is more than just an example of cancel culture.

In Georgia, many Republicans are promising to end no-excuse absentee voting, enact photo ID laws for those who qualify for mail-in ballots and potentially strip power from the secretary of state.

Find out the history & legality of online shaming, reasons to avoid publicly shaming someone online, & how to avoid being publicly shamed on the internet.

A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter.

Holly Thomas writes that though only two months ago, it seemed cancel culture was ending Banks' career over her offensive remarks on "America's Next Top Model," her new hosting role on "Dancing with the Stars" presents an exciting opportunity for her to stage a comeback.

A Florida official said she was fired for not censoring the state's data, while questions have also been raised about accuracy in Georgia and Texas.

An anonymous Instagram account, @gaysovercovid, divided the online gay community into shamers and defenders of influencers partying during a pandemic.

News of Rudy Giuliani's coronavirus diagnosis concerned many political followers because of how much he might've spread it around.

The former New York City mayor has been the public face of President Donald Trump's legal push to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In his first one-on-one interview since the general election, President Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo over the phone that he is 'ashamed' he once endorsed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R). Trump, who throughout the interview repeated allegations of widespread voter fraud without evidence or much pushback from Bartiromo, complained about Georgia's electoral process in particular. The president became the first…

After months of delay, Boris Johnson's government has rejected amendments to the landmark legislation that would ensure support for some of the country's most marginalized women.

Lives have been ruined by those who have been wrongfully accused of misdeeds on social media.

Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.