New documentary goes undercover inside SHEIN’s factories. 

The documentary reveals that workers making clothing for the fast-fashion giant SHEIN are paid as little as 3p per garment while working 18-hour shifts. 

Most of us aren’t blind to the fact that the availability of ultra-cheap clothing is impossible without the exploitation of workers who sew them. But this doesn’t make the findings in Channel 4’s new documentary any less shocking.

Titled Untold: Inside the Shein Machine, the documentary takes viewers on an investigative journey inside factories of the world’s most popular fast-fashion giant. It also provides a glimpse on how influencers impacted the rise of Shein. Watch it here.

The beauty of social media and the internet at large is that it gives everyone access to relevant stories and content that they want to find, no matter how niche the topic. With information so readily available and accessible, we need to be conscious about what we’re putting out there and whether it’s content that we want young people to consume.

That’s why it’s essential to have restrictions and regulations in place on social media platforms. Think about the way media works – if a journalist in a newspaper writes an article that is offensive, the newspaper is liable. The challenge with social platforms is scale; where newspapers might have hundreds of journalists, social platforms have billions.

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Creative Juice is a free banking platform designed specifically for creators and their business needs. Juice is a one-stop-shop for your creator business from tax help and media kits to advanced funding and more!

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TikTok is introducing measures in aim to improve the safety of its live-stream offering. Such measures involve increasing the minimum age requirement for live-streaming in the app, while also adding a new ‘adults-only’ live-stream category.

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Is social media losing its social element? I feel like in my personal life I use it more as a form of entertainment than a way to socialise. I prefer to socialise personally via Whatsapp, FaceTime or in person coffees and use TikTok as a way to stumble across new music, fashion and comedy. 

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You’re probably acquainted with dozens, if not hundreds, of creator economy contributors.

From major-league mouthpieces to the most micro of influencers, they’re busy engaging every niche in sight. So more and more brands keep tapping into their potential, and swearing by the results.

For the brand new creator economy report, HubSpot worked with The Tilt to survey 300+ business and marketing content creators. It’s a very in-depth lay of the land.

Navigating today's creator economy:

• How business content creators are earning profits
• The dos and don’ts of forming partnerships
• Data and deliberations for knockout campaigns
• The top 11 creator outreach channels ranked by usage

Learn all about crafting and collaborating in digital spaces.

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I often talk about how I believe that the central challenge that sits in being an independent artist is knowing how to balance the creative and the business. I have spoken to fellow female and/or queer creatives in particular and most have stated a further difficulty in this balance which is how this split makes channeling both the masculine and the feminine in us confusing.

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