Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. The Age of Social Media Is Ending (The Atlantic)
2. ‘Fix your companies. Or Congress will,” Senator Ed Markey warns Elon Musk (The Verge)
3. WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose, Meta India public policy director Rajiv Aggarwal quit (Tech Crunch)
4. TikTok Builds Itself Into an Ads Juggernaut (The New York Times)
5. Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history (MIT Technology Review)
6. The Problem With Defining “Disinformation” (Carnegie)
7. Google to Pay $391 Million Over ‘Crafty’ Location Tracking (Bloomberg)
8. Covid Positive: The Technological Upside To The Pandemic (Forbes)
9. Amazon reportedly planning to shed 10,000 corporate and technology jobs (The Guardian)

Some light reading- Diplomacy, by Henry Kissinger