Thought I’d share this on here. It’s not tattle in the press but kind of related. MPs have an inquiry ongoing into influencer culture and I suppose it also links to the online harms bill that’s been drafted too. Funnily enough, the papers only picked up on this last July when em Sheldon went on the committee and said it was grown women and mums that pick on poor little social media people like her
I didn’t realise but the committee is still cross examining experts and influencers and this session, about the use of children in content was pretty interesting. And the fact the newspapers don’t bother to report any of this stuff when actually it’s pretty clear there are major concerns by MPs. I don’t know the youtuber featured but he very much downplays his childrens involvement on his channel and is probably not representative of most family or children influencers. They also discuss the laws in France around needing a licence for children to work on social media and seems the MPs might be quite interested in this as a control.
its quite long but there are good questions at Q197, Q226, Q234, Q247
There was also a session held with Amy Bryant Jeffries from Gleam where they tore her a new one over the lack of diversity on Gleams roster. Her answers were awful.