Can Linda Yaccarino save Twitter?
However competent the new CEO is, the biggest obstacle in her efforts to turn Twitter around will be Elon Musk’s…
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Is Substack the future of media?
Elon Musk’s ruin of Twitter has been a boon for the newsletter platform, which is reshaping the market for the…
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Twitter should charge us
Under Elon Musk, the platform is approaching pay up or shut up time.
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Farewell, blue tick
Strangely, I am still breathing without it.
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What does the end of Twitter mean for news media?
Without Twitter, the future of news on social media looks even more bleak.
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Elon Musk has laid bare the devil’s bargain we all make with the internet
It really is quite something to realise that you are, effectively, a website’s bait.
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If Elon Musk thinks running Twitter has been painful, he should try using it
The billionaire’s woe-is-me interview with the BBC is fooling no one.
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Twitter is dead
In the Elon Musk era, we have lost everything that once made this platform special.
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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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