The American Psychological Association is calling on social media platforms to create “special protections” to help offset the negative effects of social media usage for children and teenagers.
The American Psychological Association is calling on social media platforms to create “special protections” to help offset the negative effects of social media usage for children and teenagers.
It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.
Names like Tiger Woods and Scottie Scheffler were among participants at the 2024 Masters, which meant CBS reporter Amanda Balionis would also be on hand as well. Balionis, who married former North Carolina and NFL quarterback Bryn Renner in 2022, could be seen at the Masters and not rocking her wedding ring on the air. …
Holly Rowe had quite the night at the WNBA Draft as she attempted to interview all the incoming players who towered over her, and that included Cameron Brink. Brink, the defensive standout from Stanford, was drafted second overall by the Los Angeles Sparks. Brink was the second player taken off the board after the Indiana …
Caitlin Clark is facing racist and misogynistic attacks from Antonio Brown as she is forced to block a former NFL player on social media - just hours after she was questioned by a "pervert" reporter - By Will Potter and Jake Fenner for Dailymail.Com Published: 5:47 p.m. EDT, April 18, 2024 | Updated: 8:18 p.m. EDT, April 18, 2024 Former NFL All-Pro wide receiver and current internet provocateur...
It was business as usual for Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyel on Friday as he returned to work - despite a continuing barrage of abuse over his awkward moment with basketball's Caitlin Clark.
FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
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The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket. But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea? AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...
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