Changing horses mid-streaming? Netflixs next act

Published: July 21, 2021, 10:11 a.m.

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On the face of it, the streaming giant\\u2019s quarterly results were lacklustre. But our media editor explains why its international growth looks promising, and how it is spreading its bets. A largely uncontested purge of LGBT accounts from China\\u2019s social-media platform WeChat reveals much about a growing Chinese-nationalist narrative online. And why researchers are cataloguing the microbes of big cities.

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