Content writing
How social Media Creators Are Writing Our Future Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation about the virus and vaccines spread online. Therefore, many public health leaders partnered with social influencers in attempts to educate audiences they couldn’t reach through more traditional modes. We’ll only see more of that in the future, argues Taylor Lorenz, a tech columnist at The Washington Post, and the author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. The book is a social history of the last 20 years of our increasingly online lives. I talked with her about what she’s learned throughout her career reporting on the front lines of the internet, and how social media platforms have transformed society. Why did you write this book? TL: I wanted to write a kind of people's history of the internet. I wanted to talk about the rise of social media from the user perspective and specifically through the lens of the half-trillion-do...