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Instagram is coordinating with other social media platforms, including Twitter and TikTok, to ban users who have been involved in stealing hundreds of single-word user names.These short, covetable handles, known as “O.G. user names” (think…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.The QAnon conspiracy theory, promotions of bogus health treatments and calls for violence based on false claims of election fraud have a common…

WallStreetBets is by no means all young people. The demographics of the Reddit forum, which now has over six million people, are broad and encompass out-of-work boomers, earnest millennials and hyper-online children. However, the…