Benedetta Crisafulli is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Birkbeck University in London. Rafqa Touma chats to her about the growing and largely unregulated market power of influencers.

Also writer Hannah Copestake on adopting a Cottagecore aesthetic to deal with the pandemic.

Stuff we dig:

This interview with Evelyn Douek about the crumbling idea of Free Speech on platforms

This feature by Josh Taylor from The Guardian on how Cellebrite’s hack-ability will impact how much Australian police love using it to help prosecute criminal cases

The news that Uganda is splashing on facial recognition CCTV joining the list of countries using crime as an excuse to expand mass surveillance

Also, check out this award-winning AI which promises to end gender inequality in the workplace by generating CV brags. Does it work? Well…

No.

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