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‘Men are now scared to speak to women, so when they see someone do it successfully, it intrigues them’
Aug 30, 2024
Skin-smoothing beauty filters on social media are warping our perception of what real skin looks like – pores, pockmarks, pimples and all. Are we suffering from collective skin dysmorphia?
Aug 19, 2024
The video-sharing app has positioned itself as a right-wing alternative to YouTube, with polarising figures such as Andrew Tate and Russell Brand racking up sizeable followings on the platform
Aug 08, 2024
Disinformation and far-right rhetoric have been allowed to spread on platforms such as X and Telegram
Aug 07, 2024
Modern tradwives believe in creating families centred around a male breadwinner and female homemaker – but is it even possible for a family to survive on one income anymore?
Aug 01, 2024
What would your firstborn want as a future TikTok handle?
Jul 24, 2024
Claire Bishop’s new book Disordered Attention explores how Instagram and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art
Jun 27, 2024
Online crusades against random people are inevitably going to cause more harm than good. We need to retire TikTok vigilantism and bring back minding your own business
Jun 26, 2024
Young girls are being driven to feel insecure about the appearance of their genitals, leading to sharply growing numbers of the plastic surgery procedure
From Suella Braverman asking us if we want to go to the Four Seasons Orlando to Dawn Butler rapping, we’ve ranked TikTok election videos from cringe to most cringe
Jun 18, 2024
Vincent Ferrané’s latest photo book IRL Corps shines a light on how social media has changed our relationships with self-portraiture
Jun 07, 2024
As controversial YouTuber IShowSpeed, Darren Watkins shares an estimated 70 per cent of his life with his millions of fans – but how does it feel to grow up online in today’s 24/7 streaming culture?
Jun 05, 2024
During the last election in 2019, none of the major political parties had TikTok accounts – today, they all use the app to directly appeal to young people. But will it work?
The OnlyFans star’s ‘GamerGirl bathwater’ went viral in 2019 – but then PayPal froze her accounts
May 21, 2024
A new study of data from 168 countries found that Internet use is consistently associated with positive wellbeing – but not for everyone
May 14, 2024
