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Find here all of the New Statesman’s comment and analysis about social media and the digital age.
How student survivors of the Florida school shooting are using social media to demand change
“As teenagers, we know how to use social media and we know how to take advantage of it.”
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Instagram can be painful in a breakup, but it helped me practise being myself
Seeing his name as part of a wider list of friends, colleagues and ex-boyfriends who’ve watched my stories reminds me…
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From Soros to Oxfam, political polarisation is pushing conspiracy theories into the mainstream
Two stories from opposite sides of the political spectrum over the past week show quite how far such theories have come.
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No matter how much you hate Facebook, Wired’s “beaten Mark Zuckerberg” cover is a disgrace
The magazine have published a photograph that wouldn’t look out of place on The Daily Stormer.
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If you miss the goofball Will Smith of the Nineties, you’re in luck: he’s on Instagram
Via the app, Smith continues to offer the charismatic, wholesome silliness that catapulted him to fame in the 90s.
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Insta-peeking: How people sneak, stalk, and spy on Instagram stories
Users confess how they get around Instagram’s “Seen by” feature.
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The ongoing identity theft of Kylie Jenner’s week-old baby
Who is @stormijenner? And what do they want?
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We downloaded the Matt Hancock app so you don’t have to
The Tory MP Matt Hancock has invented the Official App for Matt Hancock.
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Karen, Sharon, Becky, and Chad: How it feels when your name becomes a meme
Over the last few years, certain names have become the butt of online jokes.
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The morality and integrity of Donald Trump “girther” memes
Does the 45th president weigh more than the official White House doctor claims? And are some on the left discrediting…
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How the changes to your Facebook news feed could help Labour win the next election
The party must effectively and innovatively organise their packs of micro-influencers, and not rely on broadcasting messages from the centre.
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“It did happen,” says Green politician Amelia Womack, winner of the Didn’t Happen Awards
What happens when 20,000 strangers brand you a liar?
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How terrorists and provocateurs are using social media against western democracies
On the digital front line are guilt-ridden Russian trolls, young women lured by Isis and Facebook Sherlocks in suburbia.
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“Let’s colonise MySpace!”: inside the alt-right’s internet
An echo chamber of hate is being created as the far-right flee Facebook and Twitter.
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“I’m on holiday and I’m not dead”: Rebekah Shelton is victim to Twitter’s latest death hoax
How one tweet spawned multiple false headlines.
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Over my dead body: the celebrities selling products from beyond the grave
When a celebrity dies, marketers are quick set up shop on their social media pages.
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Is this a charming story of young romance… or an advert for gum?
What does a viral tweet about Extra teach us about trust, influencers, and the internet?
ByQuiz: Would you succeed as a Facebook moderator?
Is your idea of what constitutes hate speech and harassment the same as the social network's?
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Why people are fleeing to virtual Germany to escape internet Nazis
Ich bin ein Berliner.
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