2021 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten

Here we go! A deep dive into the year's latest trends in social media and politics, as well as predictions for the future. We cover various platforms' year in review recaps, Telegram and Belarus, Facebook's change to Meta and the Silicon Valley "Founder", artificial intelligence and the virtual politician, Web 3 and Parler, and the enduring role of newsletters.

Here's the platform year in review stats and bonus links for the episode:

Facebook Threat Report (about.fb.com/news/2021/12/metas-adversarial-th…)
Google Year in Search (trends.google.com/trends/yis/2021/GLOBAL)
Tiktok Cultural Phenomenons (newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/year-on-tiktok-2021-us)
Pinterest Predicts (business.pinterest.com/pinterest-predicts)
Reddit Recap (redditinc.com/blog/reddit-recap-2021)
Snap Lens on the Year (newsroom.snap.com/lens-on-the-year-2021)
Twitter #OnlyOnTwitter (blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/insights/2021/20…)
Article with chart on social media's impact on democracy (osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/p3z9v)
The greatest newsletter of all-time (tommoylan.substack.com)
See you in January for new episodes! <3