Symeon Brown – Bath Literature Festival

The Impact of Internet Influencers

In the ‘attention economy’, influencers are royalty and everyone from mumfluencers to governments want to build their online influence. But what murky secrets lurk behind the filtered selfies? Channel 4 reporter Symeon Brown (Get Rich or Die Trying) and digital strategist Olivia Yallop (Break the Internet) talk to Marisa Bate about influencer bootcamps, fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes and whether our digital rat race is costing us too much.