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 20 Most Promising Israeli Startups to Follow in 2021 (Haaretz Newspaper)
  2. WSJ’s deep dive into eating disorder on TikTok explains a sudden policy change (The Verge)
  3. What is the metaverse? (BBC News)
  4. Could Supernova be an ‘ethical alternative’ to the social media giants? (TechCrunch)
  5. How to save our social media by treating it like a city (MIT Technology Review)
  6. Facebook Warns 50,000 Users Were Targeted By Spy-For-Hire Companies (Forbes)
  7. The year Reddit changed Wall Street forever (CNN News)
  8. LGBTQ people in need of stand-in parents at weddings find ‘family’ in Facebook group (USA Today)
  9. What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021 (Vox)

Some light reading- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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