“On the Internet,” says the famous New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” In hindsight, the artist should have ...

Anonymity is one of the great gifts of the Internet, because it allows people to explore new interests and express opinions without anyone knowing who they are. It's protective, it's empowering, and ...

Over the past few years a growing number of social networks and online communities -- the likes of Facebook and YouTube among them -- have introduced, or in some cases have tried to introduce, a real ...

This article explores three research goals: to measure how many Twitter users adopted anonymous pseudonyms, to measure the correlation between content sensitivity and user anonymity, and to determine ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. China's social media platforms have asked anonymous influencer accounts with more than 500,000 followers to display their ...

Online anonymity, the practice of concealing one's true identity while engaging on the internet, is a complicated phenomenon. It has positive and negative implications, which can vary greatly ...

A cluster of recent research papers describes large language model systems that can identify the real people behind pseudonymous online accounts, not one at a time, but across entire platforms. The ...

The tired and relentlessly stupid idea of banning online anonymity is once again peeping over the parapet to check if it could be given one more consideration. This time, it might get its shot. Sen.

Governor Kristi Noem came under attack last week, supposedly for advancing legislation to protect “dark money.” That’s the term used to make anonymous giving to charities sound sinister. But Americans ...

Anonymity was built into the Internet's design from the days of its progenitor (Arpanet) in the 1960s. Since then it has become a hallowed birthright synonymous with digital freedom--from oppressive ...

Pennsylvania is more than a swing state in the upcoming presidential election. It's also the site of what may turn out to be a test of an Internet user's right to remain anonymous while posting to ...