Sunday, May 4, 2025

Tag: social media

Utah enacts social media measures to protect minors online

The two regulations come as parents and lawmakers are concerned over social media use and mental health.

The RESTRICT Act could ban TikTok and other foreign-based technologies

The bill would allow the Department of Commerce to review and ban any foreign-based technologies that pose a risk to national security by use of Americans' user data.

How to get to the root of the social media crisis

Section 230 reform isn’t going to solve our problems.

States ask appeals court to reinstate 2020 antitrust lawsuit against Meta...

The lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleged that "Meta used its monopoly power to buy potential competitors and curtail competitive behavior."

“Libs of TikTok” and the right’s war on public education

This seems like the ultimate end game of all these attacks on public education.

Social media giants get a failing grade on climate disinformation

“As fossil fuel industry-backed climate disinformation pollutes users’ social media feeds and fans the flames of the climate crisis, tech companies are leaving the public in the dark.”

Social media giants’ climate misinformation policies leave users ‘in the dark’:...

"Despite half of U.S. and U.K. adults getting their news from social media, social media companies have not taken the steps necessary to fight industry-backed deception," reads the report.

Far-right groups move to messaging apps as tech companies crack down...

For years, social media allowed far-right violent extremists to recruit and organize on a multitude of platforms.

5 ways to push the climate conversation on social media

If all else fails, amplify the methane out of positive social norms!!!

From porn to tweets and online bullying; The Age of Abuse

Unity, cooperation and tolerance are the pre-eminent values of the time.

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Friends, patriots, countrymen, where are your ears?

See no evil, hear no evil, admit no evil—the close-minded cult of suckered MAGA monkeys.

Trump is rubbing our faces in fascism. But the people are rising up

As the American public continues to publicly stand up to the administration, will Trump’s grip on power will eventually slip?

‘Democracy is on life support’: Trump signs executive order to defund NPR and PBS

Move echoes far-right playbook to dismantle public broadcasting, threatens local news access for millions, and ignites legal and political firestorm over press freedom in the U.S.

‘Grotesque spectacle’: CEO pay skyrockets 50% as worker wages stagnate

Oxfam analysis reveals global CEOs now earn 56 times more than average workers as corporate profits surge and economic inequality deepens on International Workers’ Day.

ICE is the American Gestapo, kidnapping and trafficking people

Why aren’t we arresting ICE agents when they break the law?