⚡️ Dimple's Digital Digest: 12 April ⚡️
Welcome to your weekly round-up of what’s hot and what’s not in the digital world.
This week we cover teens & screen time, 'deepfake' voice tech, crime scenes on Instagram, and Lush quitting social.
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💻 UK proposes sweeping new social media laws
🤳 Why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
🎓 Students are re-creating Facebook on Instagram
📹 The golden age of YouTube is over
🤯 ‘Change my view’ Reddit community launches new website
⌛ Study: teens aren’t actually that affected by screen time
WINS OF THE WEEK:
🐟 Monterey Bay Aquarium dives into Twitter art
🐑 It’s been one year since MERL’s infamous ‘absolute unit’ tweet
HEY THAT’S COOL:
🦟 Malaria No More & David Beckham use ‘deepfake’ voice tech to fight the disease
🍺 Carlsberg follows KFC’s steps to promote negative posts - we’re not sure why yet…
✊ Stand Up To Cancer is trying to shake up video storytelling
UH OH:
‼️ Facebook will stop telling users to contact deceased friends
👎 Why has Lush UK decided to leave social media?
BONUS!
✍️ ‘Everyone’s a copywriter now. Right?’
👀 Listen up, your therapist finally got on Twitter
🧽 Instagram’s new stars: crime scene cleanup specialists