Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it‘s still shaping policy
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Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
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The endless voyeurism of lifestreaming
Twitch streamer EmilyCC broadcasts her entire life online. How did we get here?
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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The revolution will be TikTokked
Yvette Cooper is wise to aim her media strategy at the dominant modes of our day.
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Who’s afraid of YouTube Man?
Screen culture isn’t dystopia – it’s revelation.
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Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act
Mainstream platforms are consolidating their power as niche sites are forced to close.
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Far-right memes are poisoning British politics
Westminster ignores the ugly side of social media at its peril.
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Is Thomas Skinner the future of the right?
A Tory MP, a Brexiteer historian, a Reform clown and a reality-TV star walk into an auditorium…
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Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding is a pageant of bad taste
As it should be.
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Football for the KSI generation
The Baller League has updated the beautiful game for the attention-deficit era.
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The Online Safety Act is no match for Big Tech
Also this week: Another pricey BBC settlement, and muzzling the Voice of America.
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Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate
The American right has more in common with the misogynistic influencer than it pretends.
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The two deaths of Brianna Ghey
In her powerful memoir Under A Pink Sky, Esther Ghey writes her daughter was being killed by social media long…
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Trump doesn’t need TikTok to win with Gen Z
Even before the election, the young US cohort was already shifting right.
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How 4chan became the home of the elite reader
The left is losing its grip on the literary realm.
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You said you’d stop watching Love Island. Now’s the time to stick to your word
Love Island knows to appear more progressive than Big Brother or There’s Something About Miriam – but it’s got the…
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Can Zarah Sultana save the Labour left?
The 28-year-old socialist MP on her viral fame, social media abuse and Keir Starmer’s leadership.
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