Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts
Votes of millions of people don't count. — Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination. — archive.ph/waCUV ...
An investigation details how predatory men engage in the grooming of child influencers on Instagram under the guise of working as social media professionals
Photographers and other men offer to build online followings for young girls, but some are pedophiles who work with parents to sexualize them.
How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/t... Mark Medley / @markmedley : Social media is exacerbating violence in schools to a shocking degree. Naomi Buck wrote about the issue in yesterday's @theglobeandmail.com...
Snapchat turns off Solar System, which lets users see their position in their friends' orbits, by default, after a report said it was adding to teens' anxiety
Did the designers truly not anticipate this as a likely outcome? — https://techcrunch.com/... X: @brij : Good call by Snapchat. These engagement features were adding real stress to young girls I am ...
Facebook's research on teens and mental health is not as conclusive as it appears, relying on teens' self-reported views and a small sample size
With each Facebook crisis, we become savvier … Jean Twenge / The Conversation : Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teens Maxwell Strachan / VICE : Fa...
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is pausing work on Instagram Kids, after criticism from parents, experts, regulators, policymakers, and others
Good morning! This Tuesday, Facebook says Instagram isn't bad for teens … Ben Lyons / Gamereactor UK : Development of Instagram Kids has been paused Barbara Ortutay / NBC Bay Area : EXPLAINER: Why Fa...
Sources detail Facebook's extraordinary efforts to help the FBI track down a repeat child predator, paying a cybersecurity firm six figures for a Tails zero-day
For years, a California man systematically harassed and terrorized young girls using chat apps, email, and Facebook. Tweets: @lorenzofb , @kimzetter , @kimzetter , @iblametom , and @lorenzofb Tweets: ...
Investigation finds ~70 “creepshot” Tumblr blogs including one with ~11K followers and 53K+ interactions; Tumblr hasn't removed any blogs found in investigation
After Reddit famously banned the creepshots sub-reddit, which shared non-consensual, revealing photos of women … Tweets: @cindygallop , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephf...
A look at “niche memes”, personal clip art diaries teens post on Instagram to close-knit followers, a trend that took off when they returned to school this fall
Almost every day, while she's waiting for soccer practice to begin or for her mom to pick her up from school … Tweets: @chaykak , @taylorlorenz , @parismartineau , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @tay...
Jewelbots programmable bluetooth friendship bracelet aims to inspire young girls to code, passes Kickstarter goal
Somehow Teen Girls Get the Coolest Wearable Out There — Jewelbots are bracelets with programmable plastic flowers made for middle-school girls.