
CategorySocial Media


Social Media Censorship? Governments Weigh the Options
The United States may be going in the opposite direction from other Western countries
Scientific American: No Consensus on Smartphones’ Effect on Teen Brains
Others continue to wonder why teens seem comparatively fragileQuell the Cell and Kids Do Well?
That sounds simplistic but it worked at a girls’ school in New ZealandHigh goals, discipline and, perhaps most critically, a ban on cellphones, have seen St Joseph’s Maori Girls College reach the top 10 for University Entrance in this year’s high-school league tables, the NZ Herald reports.
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AI Social Media Could Totally Manipulate You
Deep learning specialist: And the scary thing is, the AI needed is not especially advancedReaders familiar with The Two Towers will recall that that’s precisely what Worm-Tongue did to Theoden King: The king heard nothing but what was conveyed to him from his would-be overlord by Worm-tongue, until someone separated him, rather forcibly, from his "social medium."
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Maybe iGen really IS fragile
Did social media's troll frenzies trigger the campus war on ideas?