Can you match the appallingly heartless internet comment with the headline about a tragic death?
Facebook’s comment section is home to an overwhelming number of people who are absolutely adamant that they will never die.
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Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
The Momo Challenge is a likely hoax, but that won’t stop news outlets from covering it
Despite the dangers of the “Momo Challenge” being widely debunked, the media will flock to wherever the big clicks lie.
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Social media gets a bad press – but for many of us, it’s a coping mechanism
It isn’t Twitter or Instagram that make me able to cope with mental health problems. It’s people, and the technology…
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The DCMS report on fake news is good and sensible and everyone will ignore it
Even if Labour wasn’t breaking apart, the government just doesn’t have time.
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In defence of Jeff Bezos’ penis
Jeff Bezos is a terrible human being. But does that mean he can’t take a dick pic?
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Is YouTube’s Bird Box Challenge crackdown the beginning of a new era for viral content?
The Bird Box Challenge is part of a wider trend towards dangerous internet challenges. YouTube is, belatedly, taking steps to prevent…
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Why is a picture of an egg suddenly the most popular ever post on Instagram?
The short answer: literally nobody knows.
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TikTok: The unlikely meme-generator you’re about to see everywhere
A seemingly obscure app is about to become a social media household name.
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Everyone is misunderstanding those Facebook emails. Here’s what you need to know
The dialogue they reveal does highlight the company’s toxic internal culture.
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Is Facebook’s leadership incompetent, or malicious?
It is increasingly difficult to say with a straight face that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are fit to run…
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No Nut November: the insidious internet challenge encouraging men not to masturbate
What may appear to be just another weird and bizarre internet challenge is underpinned by extreme misogyny and threats of violence.
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What makes a Christmas advert political?
You can romanticise war, but you can’t warn against climate change.
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Evolving social media – and online manners – mean ghosting is near its sell-by date
Once favoured excuses are becoming redundant as the internet provides increasing clarity, dispelling the mystery that is integral to ghosting.
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We don’t know who just spent £250k on pro-Brexit Facebook ads – that should worry us all
The company’s decision to be more open about political advertising looks welcome. But it is, in reality, window-dressing which is destined to fail.
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Vlogtober: the month-long vlogging spree destroying YouTubers’ lives
Vlogtober is a YouTube subscriber’s paradise. It's also a YouTuber’s hell.
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Facebook’s data breach shows us how the internet is broken – and we’re making it worse
Online data security is fundamentally broken, and the more we link accounts the worse it will get.
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Job opportunity at the New Statesman: social media sub-editor
The New Statesman is looking for someone to oversee its output across social media and other platforms.
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The departure of Instagram’s founders reminds us who the real social media boss is
If Facebook is an empire, Mark Zuckerberg is the undisputed ruler.
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The Circle says a lot more about the evils of reality TV than it does about social media
It’s difficult to justify handwringing about people pretending to be something they’re not, when that’s exactly what you’ve cast them…
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What we need from social media is transparency, not apologies
We should be told, clearly and comprehensively, the rules that tech firms use to regulate political debate.
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