De Volkskrants

What 10-year-olds see on their phones

From hypnotic sludge videos to violent clips and beauty tutorials, a trip into Dutch children’s social media feeds

The digital death spiral

What happens when an influencer turns their mental illness and euthanasia plans into viral content? In this unsettling longread, Maud Effting and Haro Kraak investigate the rise of Ghanaian-British influencer

Jolie laide

A Dutch journalist follows those giving the “ugliest city in the Netherlands” a facelift. On the northernmost stretch of the Dutch mainland, where the North Sea becomes the intertidal Wadden

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