Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls
The evidence is now clear: smartphones are the major cause of the mental illness epidemic among young women.
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Elon Musk is building an Internet of Losers
The decision to remove “legacy” blue ticks misses the point of Twitter’s Verified system – while failing to stick it…
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Stop posting
Elon Musk has killed Twitter – so what should replace it?
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How Jordan Peterson became the internet’s village idiot
The clinical psychologist is now a punching bag for both the left and the right.
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The world can no longer afford for Twitter to be run so badly
Its outage this week was irksome for us – but a matter of life and death for Turks and Syrians.
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Plastic surgery isn’t feminist
Why aren’t we allowed to challenge the idea that Botox and fillers empower women?
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This England: Twitchers vs Twitter
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The business forecast for 2023: An inflation rollercoaster and Elon Musk’s Twitter break-up
Predictions for a bumpy year ahead from the New Statesman’s business editor.
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I can’t stop politicians invading my dreams, but I can control who plagues me on Twitter
It’s bad enough that people I haven’t voted for come to power; do they have to barge their way into…
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Andrew Tate is answering a question we won’t attempt to
What is it to be a “good man” today?
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Twitter’s double standards under Elon Musk
The New Statesman has uncovered evidence that right-wing accounts are being treated differently.
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How 2022 killed the myth of the tech genius
This year saw the great humbling of the Silicon Valley billionaire – from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Elon Musk burned billions of dollars just to find out people hate him
When Musk bought Twitter he bought himself the gift of insight, and realised how little he wanted it.
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Elon Musk’s journalist ban will invite politicians to intervene
Silencing the free press crosses a line.
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Labour: Social media bosses should be held criminally liable for harmful content
The party has called for the scope of the Online Safety Bill to be expanded as it returns to parliament.
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Elon Musk’s Kanye West problem
If you give awful people the ability to say anything they like, you can’t be surprised when they say something…
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Ye, Adidas and the trap of celebrity anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jewish people won’t be stamped out in America because the German sportswear company dropped Kanye West.
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David Baddiel’s Diary: Shouting at the World Cup, a timeout from Twitter, and why Jews still don’t count
My new documentary was received well, but friends still called to tell me I was being slagged off on social…
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Is Elon Musk too rich to fail?
Twitter is $13bn in debt and losing revenue, but for the world’s richest man even failure can have an upside.
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Inside the Twittering machine
Will Elon Musk turn Twitter from a dysfunctional social media platform into a new kind of digital dystopia?
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