Join Farha Khalidi, social media provocateur, feminist cultural critic, and OnlyFans model, in this exclusive interview with the IAI. As everyone's lives become increasingly online, we ask whether we can separate our online self-expression from our real-world personal and professional lives.

Should platforms be forced to make themselves safer, even if this makes it harder for users to build vast audiences? Should governments intervene, or even nationalize social media? Or would this silence ordinary voices and hand power back to a narrow elite?

Is the idea of privacy, indeed the idea of the authentic private self, just a dogma of Western individualism? Join Hans-Georg Moeller, expert on Chinese philosophy and host of the Carefree Wandering YouTube channel, as he addresses our theme through the critical lens of Daoist thought. Social media has, he argues, changed the meanings of authenticity, privacy and the self—and this may not be such a bad thing.