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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit concerning the software X (formerly Twitter) uses to find illegal porn images. The suit was brought by Mark Martell, who objected to X using Microsoft's PhotoDNA software. Martell argued that PhotoDNA—which is used across the tech industry to detect and report child porn—required the collection of biometric data and that this collection violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). A win for Martell could have imperiled the use of PhotoDNA and similar software by all sorts of tech companies, thwarting tools that have proved useful in fighting ...
Reason
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group – Donald Trump’s namesake social media company – tumbled Tuesday as the stock continued a long slide that began following the former president’s guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. Trump Media’s stock declineTrump Media, which trades under the vanity ticker “DJT,” has tanked 39% since May 30 when a New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records. On Tuesday, Trump Media closed down 10% to $31.31. The sell-off came as Trump Media warned investors that it could not force its majority shareholder to favo...
Invezz
A US businessman bidding to buy TikTok said he strongly supported calls for social media to issue health warnings like tobacco products, calling social media “an epidemic” that is “associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents”. Frank McCourt told the Collision tech conference in Toronto, Canada on Monday that he agreed with US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s op-ed published in the New York Times titled ‘Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms’. The McCourt Global founder said, “our responsibility as adults here is obviously to protect the next generation...
Euronews (English)
Recent research published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders suggests a connection between the use of TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, and eating disorder symptoms. The study found that users who actively engage with content related to appearance and eating are more likely to exhibit symptoms of eating disorders, potentially due to the nature of the platform’s content recommendation algorithms. Social media platforms, particularly those that are photo-based, have been consistently linked to symptoms of eating disorders. These symptoms are often attributed to t...
PsyPost
Recent research published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders suggests a connection between the use of TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, and eating disorder symptoms. The study found that users who actively engage with content related to appearance and eating are more likely to exhibit symptoms of eating disorders, potentially due to the nature of the platform’s content recommendation algorithms. Social media platforms, particularly those that are photo-based, have been consistently linked to symptoms of eating disorders. These symptoms are often attributed to t...
PsyPost (CA)
Recent research published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders suggests a connection between the use of TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, and eating disorder symptoms. The study found that users who actively engage with content related to appearance and eating are more likely to exhibit symptoms of eating disorders, potentially due to the nature of the platform’s content recommendation algorithms. Social media platforms, particularly those that are photo-based, have been consistently linked to symptoms of eating disorders. These symptoms are often attributed to t...
PsyPost (UK)
Albanian-Turkish YouTuber and researcher Diamond Tema, known for his videos on religion and philosophy, has been forced to leave Turkey following online threats of arrest over a debate on Islam he took part in. Tema, who has more than 870,000 subscribers on the video-sharing platform, blasted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party over its alleged Islamist leanings. In the debate, he also criticised opposition parties, such as the main opposition Republican People's Party and IYI Parti, or Good Party. In a video titled "He who tells the truth will be sued...
Euronews (English)
A top US health official called on lawmakers to require warning labels on social media platforms such as what is currently required on cigarette packages. US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people in an opinion article published in the New York Times. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” Murthy said. "A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional act...
Euronews (English)
Surgeon General wants warning labels for social media: We already have 'em for booze and cigarettes. So why not Instagram and TikTok? Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has a New York Times op-ed out today that calls for Congress "to require a surgeon general's warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents." Such a label would serve to "regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe." "Faced with high levels of car-accident-related deaths in the mid- to late 20th century, lawm...
Reason
Russian bots affiliated with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15. Quotes appeared over celebrity photos, displaying messages calling to end aid to Ukraine and describing European collapse. The images were published between June 14-15 by the Kremlin disinformation network Dvoynyk, a representative of the Bot Blocker project told Agentsvo. The fake quotes have since garnered over 500,000 views. The...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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