Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban criticized popular podcast host Joe Rogan after he asked Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist, to debate 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time critic of childhood vaccines. “Trying to bully Dr. Hotez is ridiculous. You have producers that will prepare you and you get to control…
Meta Lowers Minimum Age of Quest Headsets in Bid to Lure Children Into VR
June 17, 2023
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Facebook parent company Meta announced plans to enable children as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through its Meta Quest headset later this year, despite a recent advisory warning social media can negatively impact the mental health and well-being of children. “Today we’re announcing changes to give families even more ways to…
Homeschooler Whose Parents Banned Social Media Graduates College at 12 With 4.0 GPA
The proud parents of a 12-year-old college graduate with a 4.0 GPA credit their daughter’s success to tenacity, homeschooling, and a ban on social media. Roderick Currie, 37, and his wife Blanca, 40, are parents to pre-teen Fiona and her 3-year-old sister, Abigail. They currently live in Palmdale, California. Both parents immigrated in their teens, Roderick…
Musk Aims for Twitter to Be a ‘Positive Force for Civilization’
Twitter owner Elon Musk has plans for his social media platform that extend far beyond social networking. In recent months, Musk has been outspoken about his intention to turn Twitter into “X,” an “everything app” that offers a variety of services—like messaging, networking, shopping, financial services, and more—in just one interface. His goal? Advancing civilization,…
TikTok Reveals Everything About Users and Those Around Them: Expert
June 16, 2023
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TikTok is under scrutiny by the U.S. government in light of national security concerns. An expert pointed out that the content hidden in TikTok’s terms of use and privacy policy is very concerning, that users who install the app voluntarily reveal everything about themselves and the information of those around them. “The cyber system in…
TikTok to Invest Billions of Dollars in Southeast Asia to Boost E-Commerce Business
June 16, 2023
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JAKARTA—Short video app TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down on the region amid intensifying global scrutiny over its data security. Southeast Asia, a region with a collective population of 630 million—half of them under 30—is…
Rep. Jim Jordan Threatens White House With Subpoenas Over Social Media Censorship
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has threatened to subpoena the White House for records on how the executive branch allegedly colluded with social media companies to suppress Americans’ free speech. Jordan made the demand in a June 15 letter (pdf) to White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, asking him to turn over…
Georgia Attorney Wins Lawsuit Against Meta Platforms Over Banned Account
A Georgia attorney has won a lawsuit against Facebook after the big tech giant shut down his account and banned him off the platform, alleging that he had violated its standards on child sexual exploitation. Jason Crawford in Hamilton, Georgia, told Fox 5 Atlanta that he had logged on to Facebook in August 2022 only…
‘Trust/Distrust’ Buttons Might Reduce Misinformation Spread On Social Media
June 15, 2023
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Analysis To trust or not to trust—that is the question many of us ask when it comes to choosing our information today. Our choices can be so overwhelming that science wants to come to the rescue by adding extra buttons on social media postings. This comes after researchers from the University College London (UCL) conducted…
Youth Depend More on Online Influencers for News Over Media Outlets: Report
June 14, 2023
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Social media influencers and celebrities are now the dominant source of news among users of apps like Snapchat and TikTok that are popular among young Americans, overtaking mainstream news sources in the process, per a new report by the UK-based Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. “While mainstream journalists often lead conversations around news…
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