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Gen-Z Influencer Flux, IG Candid Copy, Biden Forgiveness, Microchips For Focus


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45% of Gen-Z creators surveyed by Adobe said they aspire to own a business and make money from content shared online. As this generation ditches the corporate ladder for the Instagram grid, we ask is it really that easy? 

Instagram has found its next social media platform victim: BeReal. "IG Candid" is set to become a new feature on Instagram sending users a notification at random times prompting them to take a photo that simultaneously clicks from both selfie and rear-facing cameras to expose what users are actually doing. The irony of "BeReal" Instagram copy culture advance follows suit of multiple other alternative social network takeover features: from Snapchat to Stories, adding reflective filters and trending sounds of TikTok, but to name a few. Is Instagram building a platform where other platforms are simply not needed? Is any of this fair-game in the world of ever-evolving social media. 

President Biden announced his long-awaited plan for student debt forgiveness taking us back to our own stories around student debt in The Netherlands & UK. A great move, but with some Americans still losing out. 

A report by the Law Society has looked into how future lawyers could have microchips implanted into their brains to enhance their work and productivity. Though it sounds like a Black Mirror episode, it isn't. Can this work IRL and where and how best? 


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By AssociationBy Maurice Ajanaku & Emma Hooper

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