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Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
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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Causing a stink: reflections on my viral PhD
Not all academics want their work to reach a public audience, but I do.
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Quitting social media gave me a new creed: only disconnect
Online, intimacy is imagined and mystery non-existent. It’s time to lose our smartphones and find ourselves again.
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The making of a media mogul
For centuries, the news industry has been shaped by wealthy, powerful men. Have they also helped to destroy it?
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The crackdown on social media “finfluencers”
Regulators are beginning to pursue well-known figures who may be pushing financial services and products illegally online.
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Sarah Koenig: “I’ve never been a missionary for true-crime podcasts”
The Serial creator on ten years of the podcast that changed the medium forever.
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The internet’s superiority complex
We know that being online can make us feel worse about ourselves – but we also do so to inflate…
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Has social media pushed fandom to a point of no return?
It used to be people would respect your personal space – now, it’s all a bit sinister.
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Carol Vorderman is coming for Labour
From Countdown to unlikely revolutionary – the broadcaster and social media star is a political conundrum.
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How Telegram fosters online extremism
The under-regulated platform lacks transparency. The Southport riots remind us why this matters.
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