Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- The 20 Most Promising Israeli Startups to Follow in 2021 (Haaretz Newspaper)
- WSJ’s deep dive into eating disorder on TikTok explains a sudden policy change (The Verge)
- What is the metaverse? (BBC News)
- Could Supernova be an ‘ethical alternative’ to the social media giants? (TechCrunch)
- How to save our social media by treating it like a city (MIT Technology Review)
- Facebook Warns 50,000 Users Were Targeted By Spy-For-Hire Companies (Forbes)
- The year Reddit changed Wall Street forever (CNN News)
- LGBTQ people in need of stand-in parents at weddings find ‘family’ in Facebook group (USA Today)
- What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021 (Vox)
Some light reading- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle