‘It began with a dream of a connected world. A space where everyone can share experiences and feel less alone. It wasn’t long before this world become our matchmaker, fact-checker, personal entertainer, photo book , […]
University Confessions on a Downwards Spiral
The Best University Confession Page? It is the reason you still have Facebook, it is the ultimate form of procrastination; LeedsFess has become a staple of the Leeds university life. Since university confession pages took […]
Cryptocurrencies: A Year in Review and What the Future Has in Store
As has become the norm in its recent history, the cryptocurrency industry has once again failed to stop generating headlines in 2019. From the meteoric price growth that defined the first two quarters of 2019, […]
An Afternoon with Hilary Benn: Leeds Economics Society Pose Questions to Labour’s Candidate for Leeds Central
Hilary Benn has played a central role in the Brexit process since Theresa May set up the Select Committee for Exiting the European Union, which Benn chaired. Benn was invited by LUU Economics Society to […]
Social Media’s Division Over Political Ads
Facebook stands increasingly alone in the debate over political ads, with Twitter’s banning of ads showing a clear divide between two social media giants on modern democracy’s most pertinent problem. In October, Facebook refused to […]
Why Facebook Has Become FACEBOOK
The eagle-eyed of you may have spotted that one of the world’s biggest companies has just gone through a rebranding process: Facebook. It must be clarified that Facebook has not rebranded the online platform which […]
Facebook Power Ahead with new Crypto-currency Libra
As the decentralised ledger technology (DLT) space becomes more and more mainstream, companies from all around the world are beginning to divert significant resources to the space in an attempt to capitalise on the benefits […]
Facial Recognition Failure
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way, with one of its most notable advances being that of facial recognition software. Despite many years of development, the software used by big companies such as Facebook […]
Instagram and Facebook ban adverts and sponsored posts involving weight loss products. What does this mean for diet culture?
A couple of weeks ago, Instagram finally banned the promotion of ‘miracle’ diet products, much to the relief of anti-diet influencers who have been campaigning and reporting these products relentlessly. The new regulations will hide […]
Antisocial Media
Recently I keep finding myself being too scared to post pictures I actually like on Instagram. I find it hard to post a picture without messaging at least one of my friends saying, ‘is this […]
Big Brother on the Internet? Watchdogs and Social Media
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published a white paper advocating for an independent internet watchdog to keep the giants of social media in check, as well as giving oversight to the […]
Capitalised, Glamorised and Romanticised: Social Media’s Disregard For Mental Health
The disregard of social media platforms for the posting and exchanging of triggering content is harmful: it wields a detrimental effect on both the mental and physical health of its users. It is needless to […]