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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.
More than 80% of journalists say they have faced harassment and violence while doing their jobs.
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From state capitols to Washington, D.C., lawmakers are scrambling to come up with regulations that can protect kids from the potential harms of social media, since the platforms have been unwilling to adopt reasonable safeguards themselves. In just the last few months, Florida passed a law banning children under age 14 from having a social media account, Iowa legislators backed a bill that would require children younger than 18 to get parental permission to set up and use a social media account,...
Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to the disproportionately high rates of suicide among Native American youth. Their lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles county court names Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms; Snapchat’s Snap Inc.; TikTok parent company ByteDance; and Alphabet, which owns YouTube and Google, as defendants. Virtually […]
B.C. is putting its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with some of the largest social media platforms to make people safer online.
Former President Trump fired back Wednesday after Jimmy Kimmel ripped him in jokes about his New York hush money criminal trial and his social media company’s plummeting stock. In a morning post on
Dbrand, the phone case company known for its sassy attitude toward users and tech companies, gave $10,000 to a customer as an apology after it made a racist comment about their last name. On Tuesday, Dbrand reposted a complaint from a customer, Bhuwan Chitransh, who said that the skin they purchased for their MacBook changed color after just two months. Dbrand replied with a crude message that rhymed the customer’s name with “rash.” Chitransh later responded, saying Dbrand’s post reflects its...
Exclusive: ‘It is time for tech firms to step up to protect people using their sites,’ warns head of major bank
Trump Media shares have plunged in the two days that Donald Trump has been in a New York court for jury selection in his criminal hush money trial.