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Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
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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We must break up the tech platforms that threaten our democracy
We are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
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Social media has turned the riots into a spectacle
The former chief Crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal reveals how technology has both hurt and helped the state.
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The rise of playlist politics
How digital choice has deepened the crisis of democracy.
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The child entertainment reckoning
From family vlogging to kids TV, former child performers are speaking out about toxic workplaces, exploitation and abuse.
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The Policy Ask with Helen Milner: “Fixing the digital divide is essential to unite the country”
The CEO of the Good Things Foundation on social broadband tariffs, tackling e-waste and improving people’s online literacy.
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How Big Tech rewired childhood
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.
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The Parliament Brief: will the new schools “phone ban” keep children safe?
Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, told MPs that most headteachers already restrict the use of devices.
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Social media companies can no longer leave children to their own devices
Big Tech must share user data so we can truly understand the risks of phone use for young people.
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The Policy Ask with Beeban Kidron: “Taking apart legal protections is straight out of a dictator’s playbook”
The children’s rights campaigner on online safety, how the world of work has changed for women, and the courage of…
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Ending hate on social media will cost billions”
The first woman on Facebook’s board – and the co-author of Lean In – on Hamas’s 7 October attack and…
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Stanley cups are not a feminist issue
Not all criticism of female-led trends is misogynistic.
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LinkedIn Britain keeps getting weirder
Its slightly melancholic hilarity is hypnotic.
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2023: the year fandom went feral
“Stan culture” has reached new heights of invasive obsession, delusion and misogyny.
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