At 8 am on February 1, VOX published a longform reported piece about how demoralizing it is to labor in the creator economy, by the journalist Rebecca Jennings. I am a huge fan of Jennings’s reporting on digital culture, and you’ll see that she interviewed me for her piece.
That same day, Universal Music Group (UMG), which represents some of the biggest musicians in the country (Taylor Swift, you might have heard of her?) announced that it would be pulling its catalog from TikTok, because negotiations fell apart over the licensing agreement.
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