Cher is ready for this racist cartoon to croak. The pop icon wrung her hands Saturday over Pepe the Frog, the coarsely drawn amphibian whose sinister, slimy smile has come to embody the internet’s ...

If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off ...

Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog that became a white supremacist symbol, has been killed off by its creator. (See the final strip at the bottom of this post.) Pepe’s creator and illustrator Matt Furie ...

In meme-oriam: Born in 2005, the "feels good, man" meme was co-opted by white nationalists and became a hate symbol. Pepe's creator finally had enough. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng ...

Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog has gone through various incarnations over the years, most of them innocuous and amusing. But recent appropriations of the smirking green frog as Adolf Hitler, a ...

Denizens of the darker corners of the Internet turned an innocent frog comic into a hate symbol of the "deplorable" alt-right. "Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by ...

WASHINGTON — The creator of Pepe the Frog is getting more aggressive in his legal campaign against websites, books and phone apps that he says use the fun-loving cartoon figure to espouse hate.

A smiling green man-frog doesn’t initially come off as sinister, and the origins of Pepe the Frog were pretty innocuous. But back in May, Olivia Nuzzi explained how this cartoon image had been ...

Pepe is headed to court. Rather, his creator, Matt Furie, is. Furie, who debuted Pepe the Frog in 2005 in his comic “Boy’s Club,” has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the far-right-wing ...