Five articles you need to read this morning

Because procrastination and coffee are what the morning is made for,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth

Facebook determined to kill the ‘gram

It's not a site for beautiful images any more. It's a TikTok ”killer”.

Oh, dear.

Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok
Facebook’s Head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.

Sometimes anonymity isn't enough to stop social media ruining your life

A transgender writer creates an award-winning short story, exploring attitudes to gender through the prism of sci-fi. And both sides in the culture war come for her.

A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life.
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.

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