Viola Stefanello
Viola Stefanello is a Milan-based journalist covering tech and culture for Italian newspaper Il Post. Her work has also been published in Wired and Rolling Stone among others.
Koo wants to replace Twitter—but can’t shake its reputation as a home for dictators
Koo’s rise raises questions.
On Mar 1, 2023 by Viola Stefanello
Assh*le Twitter users are barging into Mastodon and demanding it stop being so polite
They’re annoyed it’s a safe space.
On Nov 10, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
‘Sharing my bizarre fyp with you that I’ve cultivated for 2 years without following anyone’ is WeirdTok at its zenith
How one user plunged his For You page into the depth of the absurd by refusing to interact with anything.
On Oct 26, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
How Ken Russell became TikTok’s only good politician
Will virality turn into votes?
On Aug 9, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
Unfair Instagram moderation of women’s bodies highlighted in a new exhibit
It aims to platform the deplatformed.
On Jul 19, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
Inside the lawsuit that could upend the Internet Archive as you know it
A benevolent act by the Internet Archive may spell its doom.
On Jul 13, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
The virality of Inside Airbnb’s maps highlight the company’s massive impact on housing shortages
Just how many homes has AirBnB taken off the market?
On Jun 10, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
Keep off the grass: How the anti-lawn meme movement is shaming homeowners for their yards
The grass isn’t greener in this community, but the lawns are better.
On Jun 1, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
New documents reveal ICE’s deal with big data to ramp up deportations in sanctuary states
Big data is fueling deportations in the Rockies.
On Apr 22, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
Police block TikToker after he stitches their copaganda posts with articles about brutality, misconduct
The cops appeared to have a thin skin.
How police persecute the LGBTQ community—and how big tech can help its most vulnerable users
‘They’re forcing their way to them manually, very easily.’
On Apr 13, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
Is Elon Musk’s Starlink actually making a difference in Ukraine?
It’s almost impossible to gauge.
On Mar 22, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
‘God is a freak’ has become a TikTok anthem for those rebelling against their religious upbringing
‘God is a freak’ is resonating on the app.
On Mar 2, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
She’s A Crowd wants to collect data to fight gender-based violence—and is leveraging TikTok to do it
She’s A Crowd is leveraging TikTok to build a dataset that will help reduce gender-based violence.
On Feb 7, 2022 by Viola Stefanello
Social media companies destroyed the history into QAnon
The viral spread of QAnon has been lost to blanket bans by big tech.
On Oct 28, 2021 by Viola Stefanello
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