Section 230 protected social media companies from liability for harmful content. It may not apply to AI chatbot outputs, ...

When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

Before 2015, the average person wouldn’t be caught dead using internet slang. To be fair, back then slang was “LOLcopter” and “epic fail.” It’s not that phrases like “Show me. To me, please” are any ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has welcomed new slang terms into the millions of words it has defined, including terms like “skibidi” and “tradwife” that have been popularized on social media. More than ...

Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech. This speech, to my knowledge, was not censored by the U.S. government in any way. The speech in question was on the topic of what ...

"Among Generations Z and Alpha in the U.S., brain rot content governs our lexicon. Entire conversations can unfold in a ...

How could our constitution-premised country, that has prioritized, cherished, and established justice from its creation, two centuries later unwittingly create, justify, and sustain the exact opposite ...

The Internet has much to answer for, but one of its chiefest sins is its relentless stupifidication of the English language. And no, I did not just make up the word "stupifidication." 1 UK pollsters ...

What happens when gaokao collides with the Internet? One consequence is the demise of Internet language, at least in Henan and Guangdong provinces. Before the two-or three-day gaokao (or national ...