Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech's Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec

UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media

Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses — Some of the footage was allegedly intended for social media content linked to so-called dating or "seduction" coaching

Canada proposes teen social media ban – with workaround for tech firms

Japan declines to join movement to ban youth from social media

Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones

Social media as bad for children as smoking, British doctors say

Social media as bad for young people as smoking, top doctors say

Robert Downey Jr. Says "It’s Absolute Horses—" to Declare That Social Media Influencers Are the "Stars of the Future"

Social Media Is Misinforming You About Relationships

Risk for democracy: Social media feeds harm people's ability to form their own opinions, the Dutch Media Authority (CvdM) concluded in a report

RIP social media. What comes next is messy

US Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media

IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media

States Are Increasingly Trying to Keep Kids Off Social Media

Receiving a thumbs-down on social media doesn’t push people away from a conversation, but instead tends to encourage them to post more while softening their tone

Toxicity on Social Media

Here’s how we can keep the pressure on social media companies

Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say

Language Models Trained on State Media Sources Launder Propaganda

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

FTC to Require Cox Media Group to Pay Nearly $1million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

A meta-narrative study examines why, in the context of social media, the echo chamber hypothesis has yielded mixed results

Nature study: State media control influences large language models – Authoritarian state propaganda is used in LLM training datasets, leading LLM outputs to repeat the propaganda

ReactOS Unifies Installation Media, Introduces GUI Installer and New ATA Driver

US teens getting less sleep than ever. Homework, social pressure and jobs still keep teens up but now screen time and social media rob their sleep

How Weak Evidence Is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth

Costumed Crowd 'Speedruns' Scientology Building For Social Media Trend

IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transactions that pulse through the cables daily

Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and ‘embarrassment’

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