The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali
In just a few years, he's become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?
Inside QAnon, the Conspiracy Cult that’s Devouring America
A fast-growing group of celebrity-crazed conspiracy theorists believes JFK Jr. is alive, Adam Schiff runs a sex ring on the Sunset Strip, and Donald Trump is God—and it's more influential than you think
50 Years Ago, the First Internet Message Was Dispatched from UCLA
Before there was Google or Facebook there was ARPANET, a rudimentary network that laid the groundwork for a revolution in technology
Rebecca Black Is All Grown Up Now
The preteen who went viral for "Friday" is about to turn 22—and she's singing a different tune
How an Adorable, Grinning Dumpster Fire Became a Symbol for 2020
It was quite a year for an L.A.-based artist's small, smiling trash bin
A Faction on TikTok Has Taken an Unlikely Interest in the Menendez Brothers
The latest social-media revisionist campaign casts the notorious murderers as wrongly maligned victims of extremely bad parenting
How Triller Became Ryan Kavanaugh’s Big Comeback
The businessman and movie producer rose from the ashes of Relativity Media with a video app—and some big boxing matches
That Widely Circulated List of COVID-19 Tips Is a Hoax
Stanford Health Care disavows the viral Google Doc attributed to the university
Keep It Host Ira Madison III Is Making Waves in Politics and Pop-Culture
The podcaster and Twitter star talks about GoT, 2020, and going from pop-culture commentator to pop-culture creator
Some L.A. Social Media Influencers Are Moving to Texas Too
A handful of celebs and business types have fled the Southland in recent months, and it looks like influencers are getting in on the trend
