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Author
Peter Biles
Date
January 19, 2023

Categorized
Social Media

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addiction, Big Tech, Big Tobacco, Deseret News, iGen, Instagram, Jean Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Smartphones, social media, TikTok}

New Article Compares Big Tech to “Big Tobacco” of the ’70s

_{Like smoking in the 1970s — known to be dangerous yet poorly regulated — Big Tech is harming kids today yet is met with little intervention or pushback} _{Peter Biles

January 19, 2023

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In a new article from Deseret News, Brad Wilcox and Riley Peterson equate Big Tech to “Big Tobacco.” They argue that the online world has the same dangers and negative effects as other drugs, and go on to cite alarming mental health data to back up their claims. Similar to how smoking was found to be dangerous in the 1970s and yet poorly regulated by the government, Big Tech is harming kids today yet is met with little intervention or pushback. They start with a powerful analogical anecdote, writing, Imagine if a man in a white panel van pulled up in your neighborhood and began enticing teens to look at pictures and videos featuring drug use, pornography and a range Read More ›

cyber bullying concept. people using notebook computer laptop for social media interactions with notification icons of hate speech and mean comment in social network

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
July 25, 2022

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Psychology, Social Media

Tagged
Cheslie Kryst, Constance Wu, Cyberbullying, Featured, Jean Twenge, Social media and mental health, Social media and suicide, Social media ban for teens, Social media limiting use, Teens and social media}

Social Media Can Literally Kill. It Killed Cheslie Chryst

_{Chryst’s suicide — and Constant Wu’s thwarted attempt — spotlight the toxic cyberbullying that is intrinsic to Big Tech’s formula for success} _{Andrew McDiarmid

July 25, 2022

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Medicine and Health, Psychology, Social Media}

[This article is republished with permission from the New York Post (July 23, 2022) where it appeared under the title “Constance Wu’s suicide tweet proves social media can mean life or death.”] “Looking back, it’s surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but that’s what happened.” Last week, actress Constance Wu confessed on Twitter that she had tried to take her own life after she made “careless tweets” about the renewal of her TV show, ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” in May 2019. “So upset right now that I’m literally crying,” she had posted about the show’s renewal, which had forced her to give up another project she was passionate about. As would be expected on a public Read More ›

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Author
Mind Matters
Date
September 20, 2018

Categorized
Education, Social Media

Tagged
Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff, iGen, Instagram, Jean Twenge, Jonathan Haidt}

Maybe iGen really IS fragile

_{Did social media's troll frenzies trigger the campus war on ideas?} _{Mind Matters

September 20, 2018

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Education, Social Media}

Twenty-four-year-old fashion blogger Scarlett Dixon posted a picture of herself having breakfast, “looking flawless on a freshly made bed flanked by heart-shaped helium balloons.” The orcs burst suddenly through the virtual gate. Read More ›