Hardeep Matharu
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Interviewer
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture
Editor-in-Chief of the independent UK publication Byline Times
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture
Editor-in-Chief of the independent UK publication Byline Times
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Traditional media wants to tell people what the story is they should subscribe to on our politics/society.
Social media is enabling people to more significantly create their own stories in their heads, which more powerfully shape their instinctive view of the world.
Where is 'truth' in all this?
Social media is enabling people to more significantly create their own stories in their heads, which more powerfully shape their instinctive view of the world.
Where is 'truth' in all this?
January 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Traditional media wants to tell people what the story is they should subscribe to on our politics/society.
Social media is enabling people to more significantly create their own stories in their heads, which more powerfully shape their instinctive view of the world.
Where is 'truth' in all this?
Social media is enabling people to more significantly create their own stories in their heads, which more powerfully shape their instinctive view of the world.
Where is 'truth' in all this?
Whereas the influence of newspaper barons like Murdoch was 'in the shadows', through the back door of Downing St & splashed across front pages, the tech media age of Musk allows the algorithm to get directly into people's heads, activating emotional trigger points in a more targeted, insidious way.
January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Whereas the influence of newspaper barons like Murdoch was 'in the shadows', through the back door of Downing St & splashed across front pages, the tech media age of Musk allows the algorithm to get directly into people's heads, activating emotional trigger points in a more targeted, insidious way.
It's not just that we've lost the sense of a shared reality; the notion of truth as a principle/philosophy. But that, in the tech-media-populist age, truth has come to mean/symbolise a highly personalised, emotionally-driven, identity former that can be different for everyone. So it's up for grabs.
January 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's not just that we've lost the sense of a shared reality; the notion of truth as a principle/philosophy. But that, in the tech-media-populist age, truth has come to mean/symbolise a highly personalised, emotionally-driven, identity former that can be different for everyone. So it's up for grabs.
The Labour Government 'holding steady' against the forces of Musk/Conservatives/Reform/right-wing press is unlikely to be enough.
Whether the right falls out with itself or not, our headlines have been dominated by Musk's demands. The distraction, division, and diversion in itself is significant.
Whether the right falls out with itself or not, our headlines have been dominated by Musk's demands. The distraction, division, and diversion in itself is significant.
January 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Labour Government 'holding steady' against the forces of Musk/Conservatives/Reform/right-wing press is unlikely to be enough.
Whether the right falls out with itself or not, our headlines have been dominated by Musk's demands. The distraction, division, and diversion in itself is significant.
Whether the right falls out with itself or not, our headlines have been dominated by Musk's demands. The distraction, division, and diversion in itself is significant.
We're living through the revolution nobody voted for: the tech/information whirlwind that now swirls chaotically and dangerously around our politics and democracies.
Musk, Trump... they are players in a much bigger change: an unprecedented change too big to grasp and with no immediate solutions.
Musk, Trump... they are players in a much bigger change: an unprecedented change too big to grasp and with no immediate solutions.
January 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We're living through the revolution nobody voted for: the tech/information whirlwind that now swirls chaotically and dangerously around our politics and democracies.
Musk, Trump... they are players in a much bigger change: an unprecedented change too big to grasp and with no immediate solutions.
Musk, Trump... they are players in a much bigger change: an unprecedented change too big to grasp and with no immediate solutions.