TikTok
One year until TikTok is banned in the USA
The US Senate votes to force Bytedance to sell TikTok — or see it banned in the US. Social media is the new geopolitical battleground.
TikTok
TikTok Watch
The Chinese-controlled social network really doesn't want to play nice with other governments…
world politics
The Politics of TikTok, Reddit explained, and Google gamed
Could a US ban on TikTok trigger a social media power struggle? And how did the Verge use ChatGPT to game Google?
X (Twitter)
Why the Twitter road crash is more serious than you think
Plus the growing evidence that AI chat search is far from ready for prime time, and some great reads on both how ChatGPT actually works and what’s behind “hot, lonely women” catfishing scams
china
Isabel Hilton: what the UK can learn from China's Discourse War
Isabel Hilton's James Cameron memorial lecture at City's journalism department challenged journalists to rise to the challenge of a global information war
podcasting
China's paid podcast model
The podcast industry in China is worth $7.3bn - and it's not from advertising.