Lauren Smiley

A false report on Twitter exploded into a call to arms. Then a bus, carrying a family and two dogs, rolled into a remote Northwestern town. A dive into our summer of disinformation and American discontent.

How porch camera culture intersects chaotically with social media, class, and race - and escalated a feud between a package thief and tech-boom San Franciscans.

The tick-tock saga of the failed coronavirus quarantine watched around the world.

Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her 60s who lived alone with cats. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn't see anything, but her Fitbit did.

An 8-part podcast on the family who appeared like the perfect interracial family on Facebook, but had a long trail of abuse that ended off a California cliff.

The true crime story of a prolific Facebook "master post-er" - who for years shielded her family's problems from scrutiny via her posts until, investigators believe, she intentionally drove them off a California cliff.

The story on an Indian techie killed in a Kansas bar by a white man who screamed "Get out of my country!"

An overseas workers conversing with US seniors - via a puppy avatar.

Farmers are adapting to climate change with new technology. I spoke about my reporting on NPR's Marketplace.

The cultural shift of an on-demand world: getting used to getting served.

My report on the near minimum wage workers in an Instagram factory.

A Silicon Valley idealist sets out to automate the fast food business he grew up in.

In a Silicon Valley Hooverville next to the Stanford campus - people live in a line of Jaycos and Winnebagos.

A report on partisans entering local news in a time of newsroom layoffs and readers looking for views they agree with from their Facebook foxholes.

Hell is other parents' screen-time policies.