The First Guy to Break the Internet by Emma Madden. Oct. 4, 2023.
“It was the halcyon days of social video, eons before TikTok, and one gung-ho idealist had a simple plan to change the world. His Kony 2012 campaign crushed the internet—and nearly crushed him, too.”
https://www.narratively.com/p/the-first-guy-to-break-the-internet
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up by Eric Lipton and Kirsten Grind. Feb 11, 2025.
“Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling from President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html
Multimodal use -- Picture, Video, Background history of the subjects, helpful graphics to further make connections for the reader, links to referenced sources and connected articles.
Between these two extensive articles, there are similarities in media used, links to supporting stories, photographs, and video reports. And the “Kony 2012” YouTube video Emma Madden’s follows over a decade after. Showing the campaign methodology of the time (sans algorithm). In the story covering Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) the use of diagram shows the connections and influences the department and Musk – with his cronies have built. In the guise of oversight. With the growing of the corruption by them
The differences between the two is that one is an ongoing story, while ‘Kony’ and Invisible Children story is an overview of the events at the time. Enhanced with photos from various sources while the NYTimes has used their own resources to develop the “DOGE” story.