Digg Explainer

As summer came to an end, the online content did not. These are 10 of the most popular and important stories from the last month, as determined by Digg readers.

It's an internet fight and only the funniest memes will survive. This week's challengers: Keke Palmer, Aliens at Area 51 and more.

It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? Bret Stephens, Minecraft Bees and more.

Lots of good and bad stuff happened on the internet this month. Shockingly, even *more* stuff fell in between.

Man, it’s a hot one. A hot month for weird internet content, that is. Here are the ten stories from July that mattered most on Digg.

A plan to attack Area 51 went viral on Facebook, and a trove of memes soon followed. Some of the posts have irony layered so thick that it could reach the stars.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is upon us. And if you want to watch it but you don’t want to shell out and effectively pad both Big Cable’s and Big College Sports’ bottom lines, here’s what you should do.

Good gymnastics, bad sexts and a whole bunch of no-good, very bad world events. Here are the ten big things that happened in January 2019, all in one big post.

On Thursday, Der Spiegel released a long apology and note about the reporter, Claas Relotius, revealing that he had engaged in “large-scale journalistic fraud” for years.

Tight races have inspired lawsuits from both Republicans (seeking to count fewer ballots) and Democrats (seeking to count more ballots).

A trove of documents related to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski’s Watergate investigation were unsealed today, including a criminal indictment approved by a grand jury against Richard Nixon on four criminal counts.

For the past four months, there was rife speculation that China’s highest-paying actress had been banned from acting or had been detained by Chinese authorities because of tax evasion scandals.

In a questionnaire administered by his own lawyers after the alleged 2009 attack, Ronaldo admitted that Kathryn Mayorga hadn’t consented to sex with him, saying “She said no and stop several times” and “She complained that I forced her.”

Moths love lamps like humans love memes about moths loving lamps, apparently.

Was Elon Musk making a weed joke? Or was he serious? Either way, he might be in hot water.

​On Friday, the EPA will enter the final stage of approval for a new rule that would allow manufacturers to use asbestos in new products, pending an EPA review. If implemented, this significant new use rule (SNUR) would reintroduce the use of asbestos into new building materials, reversing regulations that restricted “new uses” of asbestos.

On Sunday and Monday, President Trump dropped two tweets about California’s wildfires that have left people scratching their heads.

As it always is with policing speech online, is this a slippery slope?

Wild stories about the odd and ordinary ways people interact can be some of the most fun and rewarding parts of the internet. That is not the case for #PlaneBae.

Divers from all over the world participated in a huge operation to rescue the boys, who became stranded by rising water after exploring the cave on June 23.

After hanging on through months of revelations about and investigations into his actions, Pruitt has finally resigned.

Justice Anthony Kennedy has long been known as a swing justice — although in his last season he sided with the court’s conservative bloc on several high-profile cases — and replacing him with a more consistent conservative could transform American policy and society for decades to come.

If Twitter and the Washington Post op-ed section are to be believed, we’re at some sort of tipping point for the way we conduct political debate here in the United States. The crucial word here is “civility.”

The justices also sent a political gerrymanding challenge from North Carolina back to a lower court.

News this week of Tesla suing a potential whistleblower over allegations of sabotage are the latest bumps in what has been a year of factory safety concerns, union busting and missed production targets.

​On Wednesday morning, the European Parliament voted in favor of a proposal to change EU copyright law, known as the Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Copyright and internet experts believe it will destroy the web as we’ve come to know it.

Are we going to Mars? Will Trump command a fleet of space ships and come to dominate the cosmos before any other space-faring nation can hope to lay claim to the resources of the infinite? The answers are, predictably, far more boring.

The Trump administration has wantonly created a humanitarian crisis at the border by forcibly separating children from their parents. Here’s what you missed this weekend.

Is today’s filing a serious threat to Trump’s presidency, or just another lawsuit that’s destined to drag on without resolution for months or years?

Voting rights advocates say that the ruling will result in the disenfranchisement of thousands of mostly low-income and nonwhite voters and could throw future elections to Republicans.

On Tuesday, primaries took place across the country in what was one of the biggest preliminary election days ahead of the midterms this November.

It just got a lot harder to sue your employer for stiffing you, among other things.

Trump is building on stories that have circulated since January.

The criminal charges are only the latest attempt to crack down on mugshot-publishing industry, which has proven surprisingly resilient.

Did Trump know about the meeting ahead of time? Why did everyone freak out once it became public? And does Don Jr. know his own phone number?

The reported deal comes a week after a Chinese state-owned construction company struck a deal to help a real-estate developer that is working to build new Trump-branded property in Indonesia.

What was supposed to be a PR slam dunk for the pair turned into a nightmare.

If this is a very clever marketing stunt, it’s working.

“Incel” is the name adopted by an online community of men who consider themselves “involuntarily celibate” and advocate violence against women.

After the release of a document that alleges multiple acts of misconduct on the job involving medication and alcohol abuse, Jackson pulled out of the nomination process.

When property owner John Collins asked to see a warrant, the officers refused his request and continued their raid in a violent manner.

Students across America are leaving school for the day to protest against gun violence. Just this morning, another school shooting in Ocala, Florida has underscored just how intractable the problem is.

The documents, which were primarily sought after by Republicans, were promptly revealed to the public — reiterating many stories that Comey had already told, but also revealing some new details.

Facebook will be transitioning 1.5 billion non-European users around the world away from their existing agreements with Facebook’s Irish headquarters, placing them outside of the protections of the GDPR.

Is this the point where conservative darlings become palatable to liberals?

David Buckel was a nationally renowned civil rights lawyer who devoted his later years to environmental causes. In a suicide note, he said he hoped his death would spur action to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Hmmm, what message might Trump be trying to send with this pardon?

According to a new survey, 41% of adults, and 66% of millennials, cannot correctly identify Auschwitz as a concentration camp. Sadly, these numbers are in line with the results of past studies on Holocaust awareness.

Tesla crashes reveal that overreliance on the new, and still flawed, safety features of Autopilot and semi-autonomous modes can be deadly.

Here’s what the smartest pundits, commentators and analysts are saying about the House Speaker’s announcement that he won’t seek reelection this fall.

Zuckerberg could face questions about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Russian election interference and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.

This case just keeps getting crazier.

On last night’s episode, Lisa and Marge acknowledged that the show’s only South Asian character is “politically incorrect” but then asked, “What can you do?” This response seems to have satisfied absolutely no one.

An alleged chemical bombing has refocused global attention on the conflict in Syria.

A new meme has taken over the internet and if you don’t love it… buddy, I’ve got bad news for you.

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, jailed dozens of political rivals and dissidents last fall. Dwayne Johnson says it was “great to hear his deep rooted, yet modern views on the world and certainly the positive growth of his country.”

In the last few weeks, a handful of scoops have shredded any doubt that Pruitt has been skirting ethics laws and working to curb environmental regulation. Here’s a rundown of the developments.

The segments, seemingly designed to undermine other news organizations, fit into a pattern of Sinclair promoting conservative, pro-Trump viewpoints.

Remember how much we heard about the Equifax hack? Well, MyFitnessPal just lost 150 million users’ data, even more than Equifax did.

State prosecutors could still appeal this decision to Maryland’s Court of Appeals.