Plus some explanation of why social platforms go bad, and how the FT’s Mastodon experiment died.

Things are changing so fast under Elon Musk, embedding Tweets may no longer be safe, if they're important to the story

Despite Twitter and Meta’s troubles, humanity’s desire to create and share will not diminish. They’ll just find new ways of connecting. And they already are.

Looking for a Mastodon Instance to begin your journey in the fediverse as a journalist? You’ve come to the right place!

Are we any nearer buidling a more healthy relationship between news publishers and social media platforms? The outlook is not good, suggests a news:rewired panel…

The possibility of an Elon Musk-run Twitter has people heading for the doors. If we see a mass deletion of accounts, all of a sudden a lot of news stories while find crucial embedded elements at risk.

Social platforms keep evolving in unexpected directions. Here's three changes that have become clear in recent weeks.

Being able to talk like the people you want to reach is a critical audience engagement skill.

It's easier than ever to connect with fellow journalists. But does that mean it's too easy to get disconnected from our audiences?

Ezra Klein's latest podcast delves deep into the social complexities of the behaviours lumped under the banner of "cancel culture"

Pour yourself a drink, find a quite corner, and enjoy this selection of interesting reading, listening and viewing from around the web.

Deplatforming Trump and QAnon won’t kill the movement. But it might just stop it growing as fast.

Yes, all social networks are developing the same feature set. No, that doesn’t mean they’re all becoming the same. Here’s why.

A round up of news you can use in your social media and digital publishing work. Just don't click on the last link, unless you want to despair of men.

Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media.

Social media mobs do what mobs have always done: give the masses the feeling of power.

Some more thoughts on deescalating the culture war, as well as ways of looking better in your Zoom calls and an interesting new business opportunity…

The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?

As the social platforms empty their offices of staff, content moderation is taking a serious hit. Here's why.