by Dr. Brian Primack and Sadie Primack Instagram recently announced that a central pillar of its response to teen mental health harms will be to create controls offering parents “to […]
Tag: social media
W.Va. has the most trolls — but they aren’t under bridges
A survey by Redact.dev, a software company whose program can help you remove previous “contentious” posts from your social media, found that 27% of social media users in West Virginia […]
There’s a better way than fact-checking COVID posts
by Faye Flam The right and left may not agree on what constitutes misinformation, but both would like to see less of it on social media. And as the world […]
2021: The year of losing friends
by Gustavo Arellano Frank was everything I was not. White. Middle-aged. A father. Rich. Republican. We somehow still hit it off years ago. He was a faithful reader of mine […]
The price of leaving Facebook unchecked
In August 2017, the Myanmar military, backed by civilian mobs, launched a coordinated attack against the Rohingya Muslims living in the country’s Rahkine state. The massacre — later deemed genocide […]
WVU investigating social media posts by four students
MORGANTOWN — Four West Virginia University students could be facing disciplinary action after making online posts that violated the University’s safety policy. According to a Wednesday press release, the students […]
1 in 4 adults are estranged from family — and paying a psychological price
by Galit Atlas Search “toxic parents” on Instagram, and you’ll find more than 38,000 posts, largely urging young adults to cut ties with their families. The idea is to protect […]
Gosar’s conduct is unbecoming of a U.S. representative
On Sunday, Nov. 14, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) posted to Twitter and Instagram a video created by his campaign that depicted him committing violence against fellow representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) […]
A chronological feed wouldn’t fix Facebook’s problems
by Cathy O’Neil There’s been a lot of discussion, since the Facebook Files were leaked, about how to repair the social media platform. A lot of this talk centers on […]
Nextdoor was supposed to encourage kindness
by Robin Abcarian It’s become conventional wisdom that the proliferation of social media sites and the ease with which strangers can communicate has led to a deterioration of civility. This […]
