Social Media

Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.

Andrew Tate has turned five months of Romanian detention into a rallying cry. I went to a bootcamp for “alpha…

Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…

By Simon Ings

Elon Musk’s ruin of Twitter has been a boon for the newsletter platform, which is reshaping the market for the…

By Harry Lambert

Without Twitter, the future of news on social media looks even more bleak.

By Sarah Manavis

The children’s commissioner on social media, porn and the mental health crisis in schools.

By Anoosh Chakelian

Chunky bricks and Noughties flip phones are creeping back into the mainstream, as an antidote to smartphone addiction.

By Sarah Manavis

I’d been lied to, by the very thing I hold in my hand for the majority of my day. How…

By Marie Le Conte

The evidence is now clear: smartphones are the major cause of the mental illness epidemic among young women.

By Jonathan Haidt