Rethinking social media

With Elon Musk seemingly destroying Twitter, we decided it was time to ask two experts whether we need to be rethinking social media as freelance journalists. Can we live without Twitter and what are the alternatives? Should we be more mindful about how our data is used? And how on earth does Mastodon work? We spoke to tech and internet journalists Chris Stokel-Walker and Steven Asarch to find the answers.The guestsChris Stokel-Walker stokel-walker.comTwitter https://twitter.com/stokelSteven Asarch https://muckrack.com/steven-asarchTwitter https://twitter.com/IAmAsarchResourcesMastodon https://mastodon.social/Blue Sky https://bsky.app/Threads https://www.threads.net/Reddit https://www.reddit.com/Discord https://discord.com/Signal https://signal.org/Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1398527491TikTok Boom by Chris Stokel-Walker https://www.amazon.co.uk/TikTok-Boom-China-Superpower-Social/dp/1912454793The History of the Internet by Chris Stokel-Walker https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Internet-Byte-Sized-Chunks-Bite-Sized/dp/1789295599Google accidentally leaking AI chats by Chris Stokel-Walker https://www.fastcompany.com/90958811/google-was-accidentally-leaking-its-bard-ai-chats-into-public-search-resultsRecommendationsMiles Klee, internet culture journalist https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/Jessica Lucas, There's a Deadly Drinking Problem on TikTok https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deadly-drinking-tik-tok_n_64760b90e4b02325c5dd1b33Seth Simons, Who's afraid of Lorne Michaels? https://longreads.com/2023/08/17/lorne-michaels-saturday-night-live/Taylor Lorenz, tech journalist on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenzSophia Smith Galer, journalist https://twitter.com/sophiasgalerLaura Garcia, BBC Mundo

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