Social media

Should Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s tweets have legal consequences?

Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Abd El-Fattah

Kim Kardashian will make you a CEO

A newer model of female celebrity has turned influencers into business moguls

Inside the agency building Keir Starmer a TikTok army

A private firm is finding and training a network of political influencers

Should the UK copy Australia’s social media ban for under 16s?

As the world’s first blanket ban takes effect, the UK’s paralysis looks increasingly dangerous

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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The endless voyeurism of lifestreaming

Twitch streamer EmilyCC broadcasts her entire life online. How did we get here?

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.

The revolution will be TikTokked

Yvette Cooper is wise to aim her media strategy at the dominant modes of our day.

Who’s afraid of YouTube Man?

Screen culture isn’t dystopia – it’s revelation.

Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act

Mainstream platforms are consolidating their power as niche sites are forced to close.

Far-right memes are poisoning British politics

Westminster ignores the ugly side of social media at its peril.

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…

Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding is a pageant of bad taste

As it should be.

Football for the KSI generation

The Baller League has updated the beautiful game for the attention-deficit era.

The Online Safety Act is no match for Big Tech

Also this week: Another pricey BBC settlement, and muzzling the Voice of America.

Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate

The American right has more in common with the misogynistic influencer than it pretends.

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…

Trump doesn’t need TikTok to win with Gen Z

Even before the election, the young US cohort was already shifting right.

How 4chan became the home of the elite reader

The left is losing its grip on the literary realm.