As social networks and app stores crack down on disinformation purveyors and calls for violence, QAnon-based lies and conspiracy theories have found a new way to go viral: forwarded text messages.

I was recently checking my daughter’s phone and came across some text messages that are deeply disturbing. She appears to be a distributor of chain messages, and ...

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Old internet pastimes have taken on new formats as Instagram makes online chain mail trendy again. Instagram’s “Add yours” stickers, which enable any user to create an easily resharable story template ...