12 November 2021 Welcome to this week’s round up, where we’re reviewing research on the impacts of social media on mental health. …

5 November 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. This week we wanted to particularly look at how social media is dealing with the COP26 discussions. Twitter Prebunks At COP26 According to Axios, Twitter is providing “pre-bunks” designed to counter…

29 October 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! This week we wanted to look at some of the organisations working hard to improve the tech space. Fight for the Future Fight for the Future is an advocacy organisation who want to see the internet as an environment for progressive change. They have held…

15 October 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. Twitter Brings Back Twitter Classic Twitter is finally making it easier for people to access the reverse chronological timeline. Although this has always been available to switch to above the main feed…

6 October 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. Facebook Whistleblower Testimony Facebook is continuing to face a slew of negative press, with the revelations from The Wall Street Journal being followed by whistleblower testimony from Frances Haugen, who…

1 October 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. More Facebook Files Released After much criticism of the way that Facebook initially responded to the investigation by The Wall Street Journal, they then released a further, more detailed blog post…

24 September 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. “I’m Pumping With My Own Legs”: Zuckerberg’s Project Amplify The New York Times ran a piece recently talking about Facebook’s PR efforts, namely Project Amplify, an attempt to push positive stories about the platform into people’s…

16 September 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files A series in The Wall Street Journal has been covering internal Facebook documents on teen mental health, treatment of influential users, and the Facebook algorithm. The contents…

9 September 2021 Welcome to our latest weekly roundup! Here are the latest updates / news about social media from the Podium team. Facebook’s Racist Recommendations Facebook has had to issue an apology after users viewing a video about police altercations with people of colour were given a recommendation to “keep seeing videos…