In search of support?
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Young people turn to social media for support and encouragement, when society fails to help.
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Research shows that the sense of belonging provided by platforms like Facebook trumps our distrust of social media.
Doth the CEO protest too much?
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Facebook has been acting irresponsibly and selfishly, and promising to do better without actually improving. But that’s not the whole story: The company has some positive qualities, too.
What causes a media business to bar the door?
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While they may talk about ‘free speech,’ businesses make decisions about their content based on a very different set of principles.
Does the Internet bring people together or isolate them?
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Trust is the keystone of the entire Internet system: without it more connection and therefore more commerce. How to restore it?
It can be complicated to teach a computer to detect harassment and threats.
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It could seem attractive to try to teach computers to detect harassment, threats and abusive language. But it’s much more difficult than it might appear.
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Facebook has released the first batch of data about how many abusive or violent posts it has removed.
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Six things you can do to control your social media addiction.
The average smartphone user checks their device 85 times a day.
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Clinically speaking, you can’t become addicted to a device, but you can develop behavioural addictions to smartphone functions.
While politicians debate control, local communities can act now to keep kids safer at school.
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While politicians argue endlessly over gun control, here are 10 practical ways the rest of us can work to prevent school shootings.
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The Canadian author made the mistake of questioning the #MeToo campaign and was savaged on social media.
Rohingya Muslim women who fled Myanmar for Bangladesh stretch their arms out to collect aid distributed by relief agencies in this September 2017 photo. A campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country’s 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing.
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Facebook is unwittingly helping fuel a genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Does Cuba’s internet model provide lessons to manage social media amid political chaos?
It’s time to build trust.
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Social media companies arose from libertarian, free-market origins but must embrace social benefits and democracy to survive.
Engaging with your teen’s online world will make it easier to have difficult conversations about some of the risks and ways to manage them.
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Parents should ask their teens to show them how they use social media and how it works so they can have conversations about what the risks are and how to reduce them.
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Companies and governments should do more to prevent ‘revenge porn’ without asking potential victims to send their nude photos to Facebook.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially dismissed as “crazy” the warnings that Russia had been using Facebook to spread propaganda in the 2016 U.S. election. He has since apologized and introduced plans and tools aimed at fighting false information on the platform. In this file photo, he delivers the commencement address at Harvard University in May.
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In a fight for the global flow of information, social media firms must be regulated. Their billions of dollars in revenue put their financial interests in conflict with truth and democracy.
‘Smile for the birdy.’
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Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child’s pictures online.
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The online abuse of journalists is increasingly leading to self-censorship and websites abandoning the comment function altogether
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Facebook has been used at times for antisocial behavior. However, such behaviors are neither unique nor new.