Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts?
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Social media platform faces $300m interest payment this week, and default could trigger debt restructuring – or bankruptcyElon Musk sold a statue of Twitter’s bird logo last week for $100,000 – and he needs the money. The social m...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/22/elon-musk-twitter-debt

What are we worrying about when we worry about TikTok? | Samantha Floreani
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Sensationalist headlines and reactionary calls for stricter moderation risk missing the forest for the treesIs there any platform that creates as much collective angst as TikTok? For some, TikTok is just a silly video app...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/22/what-are-we-worrying-about-when-we-worry-about-tiktok

Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation | John Naughton
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The new social network and its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/21/back-to-the-future-how-mastodon-is-restoring-the-lost-art-of-online-conversation

‘English flirting’: Dimoldenberg v Garfield is real magic
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The brief encounters between an actor and an interviewer have been compared to Austen’s novels and Hollywood’s golden ageHe’s a Hollywood A-lister, recently named a man of the year and routinely in...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/21/english-flirting-amelia-dimoldenberg-v-andrew-garfield-is-real-magic

Could simply calling myself a ‘lucky girl’ like a Gen Z Tik Tokker really transform me into one? | Hannah Ewens
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The craze is little more than a rehash of new age manifestation, but January’s bleakness made me desperate enough to give it a goSomething strange happened to me last year. On five or six occ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/21/lucky-girl-gen-z-tiktok-craze