Meta at 20: what next for social media?

Speakers

• Alok Jha

  Science and technology editor

  Alok Jha is the science and technology editor for The Economist, writing on everything from cosmology to particle physics and stem cells to climate change. Alok also hosts “Babbage”, the Economist’s weekly podcast on science and technology. Before that, he was science correspondent for ITN and The Guardian, covering daily news and current affairs for more than a decade. He has also written and presented multiple TV and radio documentary series for the BBC. In 2018, he spent a year as a Wellcome fellow, developing new storytelling formats for complex topics. He has reported from all over the world, including live from Antarctica, and is also the author of three popular science books, including The Water Book (Headline, 2015).
• Tom Wainwright

  Tech and media editor

  Tom Wainwright is the tech and media editor of The Economist. He joined the paper in 2007 to write about British home affairs, later becoming correspondent for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (2010-13), homepage editor (2013-15) and Britain editor (2015-20), before taking up his current role. Before joining The Economist Mr Wainwright was a trainee on the Daily Express. He read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University, graduating in 2004. He is the author of “Narconomics: How To Run A Drug Cartel” (Public Affairs, 2016), which was named one of Amazon’s 50 best books of the year.
• Liv Moloney

  Head of social media

  Liv Moloney is the Head of Social Media at The Economist. She specialises in social media strategy and the creation of multimedia content. She joined The Economist in 2021. Liv formerly spent five years as a broadcast and digital journalist at Sky News.