Tag: social media
Opinion: Mental Health Diagnoses Are Capitalist Constructs
by Micha Frazer-Carroll
Opinion: The Most Pointless Twitter Discourses Of 2022
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Opinion: Maybe Twitter Should Die?
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Report: The Dairy Industry is Blaming Vegans for Its Decline
by Sophie K Rosa
Opinion: Musk Buying Twitter Would Be the Defining Deal of Our Era
by Aaron Bastani
Opinion: Self-Help Culture Is a Lie – But Its Opposite Is Just As Bogus
by Daisy Schofield
Downstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown
Opinion: Blaming David Amess’ Murder on Social Media Is a Way of Avoiding the Knottier Problems
by Ash Sarkar
We don’t yet know what role, if any, social media played in the murder of MP Sir David Amess. But blaming it on that is at best premature, and, at worst, a complete derailment from addressing the trickier root causes.
Opinion: On Losing Perspective, Or, Why I Don’t Give a Fuck About Geronimo the Alpaca and nor Should You
by Rachel Connolly
Opinion: How Christopher Hitchens Helped the Right Justify Its Colonial Wars
by Kojo Koram
Report: OnlyFans’ Ban – and Its Suspension – Shows That Banks Have a Chokehold on Sex Work
by Marin Scarlett
Novara FM: Notice Me!
Opinion: People Are Waking Up to the Horrors of Police Brutality. It’s Time to Build a Movement
by Chardine Taylor-Stone
After the police violently shut down a vigil for Sarah Everard, many people have had their eyes opened to the horrors of state brutality for the first time. If the left is serious about building power, we shouldn't dismiss these people for being late to the party, argues Chardine Taylor-Stone.
Opinion: The Slumflower Beef Has Exposed the Limits of Influencer Activism
by Ash Sarkar
Report: Sex Workers Denounce Instagram’s ‘Puritanical’ New Rules
by Sophie K Rosa
Novara FM: Maelstrom: Politics in the Post-Truth World
Analysis: Outrage Drives Clicks, Rage Sells Stories: The Brutal Economy of the Culture War
by Sam Harrison
With Twitter begrudgingly apologising for its slow response to musician Wiley’s antisemitic rant, despite it violating the site's guidelines for hate speech, it comes as no surprise that the posts stayed up for as long as they did, writes Sam Harrison. Twitter is merely following the economic logic of the ‘culture-industrial complex’, which sees media companies profit off of online controversy.