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morgan sung
is a tech journalist, writer, editor, reluctant content creator, film photographer, textile crafter, and avid dune defender.
Morgan Sung writes about the wild expanse of hell that is the internet. Over the course of her career, her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. Her coverage includes dissecting the creator economy, unraveling conspiracy theories, defending sex workers amid an increasingly hostile digital landscape, analyzing the way moderation efforts (or lack of) have failed marginalized communities, unpacking generative AI trends, and explaining chronically online discourse to the blissfully offline.
She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more. She also runs rat.house, a newsletter about tech and digital culture. You might find her on TikTok. She would love to work with you.
rat.house is a free newsletter by morgan and her friends, who were all born in the year of the rat. it’s primarily an exploration of social platforms and their influence on real life, but sometimes morgan’s friends stop by with tangentially related takes about entertainment, food, and sports to shake things up.
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TECHCRUNCH
Republicans still don’t know how to talk to young voters online
Reddit’s menswear hub is the latest casualty of its battle with moderators
Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier strains an already tense relationship with creators
Leave sex workers out of your NPC TikTok discourse
Meta Verified is under fire in sex work circles for revealing users’ legal names
For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter
Bluesky’s growing pains strain its relationship with Black users
Kick streamers consider leaving over CEO’s comments in a sex worker ‘prank’ stream
Meta has a moderation bias problem, not just a ‘bug,’ that’s suppressing Palestinian voices
The first annual VTuber Awards was a win for VR
Mulch and the enduring appeal of internet absurdism
Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script
Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
nbc news
Some adult content creators are worried about losing their community if Twitter dies
Their children went viral. Now they wish they could wipe them from the internet.
TikTok's 'girl with the list' inspires more honest conversations about the pitfalls of pregnancy
Twitch streamers want to be the political pundits for the next generation
How the East Palestine train derailment fueled fear on TikTok
Trans Twitch streamer Keffals is ready to return home
The internet can’t stop talking about Andrew Tate
How conservative media weaponized a story about a 10-year-old and abortion
Creators are mitigating burnout with long-form YouTube videos
Those videos about a foot fetish site going viral on TikTok? A lot of them are sponcon
Johnny Depp's online fandom is toxic toward domestic abuse survivors, some online creators warn
‘I just like being anonymous’: Why Vine star Christine Sydelko left internet fame behind
Nat Puff on TikTok, becoming Left at London and turning 25 online
OnlyFans creators getaway trips bring to light the unregulated amateur porn industry
mashable
Storm Area 51: The meme came to life and it was actually kind of beautiful
'Epstein didn't kill himself' and the viral power of conspiracy theory memes
How a group of clinic volunteers use TikTok to battle anti-abortion protesters
Influencers are flocking to OnlyFans but not everyone is happy about it
The case for shaming influencers for not social distancing
On TikTok, mental health creators are confused for therapists. That's a serious problem.
Inside the online communities where straight guys help other straight guys get off
The oddbody Furby community turns '90s kids' toys into lovely nightmares
Why robots just can't grow good weed
'Sexy Church': Skating is religion at a vintage rollerway's LGBTQ night
Inside the black market trading communities of 'Animal Crossing'
The legal cannabis industry must reckon with systemic racism
Recording the police is risky, but it’s become the norm for Gen Z
The queen is back: Simone Giertz didn’t let brain surgery stop her. What’s next?