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6 July 2024

  • Amelia , who is the case study for a story on whether banning kids from social media will solve anything, or make the problem worse. Melbourne. Australia

    ‘Blunt-force approach’: LGBTQ+ advocates say proposed teen social media ban overlooks benefits

    Amid bipartisan support for restricting teenagers’ access to social networks, young queer people fear isolation and loss of community

5 July 2024

  • Spectators watch a single's match on an outer court at Wimbledon

    Wimbledon employs AI to protect players from online abuse

    Threat Matrix service monitors social media profiles and flags up death threats, racism and sexist comments
  • Kamala Harris laughs while holding mic

    #KHive: Kamala Harris memes abound after Joe Biden’s debate disaster

    Progressive snark over vice-president gives way to endless viral quotes and emojis, blending irony and authentic praise
  • A person sitting, face unseen, applies a gel to their left arm

    Prescribing of testosterone for middle-aged women ’out of control’

    Experts warn of long-term health implications amid concerns over advice from social media ‘evangelists’

4 July 2024

  • A golden retriever-type dog sits obediently outside a polling station in Southfields in London; it is squatting haunches-down on asphalt in front of black iron railings, a walkway and a red-brick wall, with its head held high.

    UK political parties on track to spend £1m on election day online ads

  • composite image of screenshots from TikTok, showing vox pops and captioned images of presenters talking about politics

    #ukpolitics: how the 2024 general election has played out on TikTok

  • Devi Sridhar

    We now know the shocking effects of screen time on teens - but smartphone bans aren’t the answer

    Devi Sridhar
  • Site specific … the screens documenting the builders’ work at madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media.

    My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars

3 July 2024

  • Gareth Southgate and his players

    It is getting harder for footballers to survive the social media abusers

    Jason Stockwood
    Telling young players to stop online interaction is all but impossible, but real connection requires effort and empathy
  • In a street interview, Hailey Welch, left, coined “hawk tuah” – and it has upended her life, she explained in the Plan Bri Uncut podcast.

    ‘Hawk tuah girl’ leans into craze she ignited but looks forward to moving on

    Hailey Welch details in podcast interview how viral clip has upended her life and doesn’t want it to ‘be her image’
  • Zing Tsjeng holding a pink bag and wearing black shoes

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: my feet appeared on a kink website that gets 20m views a month

    Sexualising my lower digits was bad enough. To be given the equivalent of a pat on the head and told ‘nice try’ was an indignity too far

2 July 2024

  • Nigel Farage in an amusement arcade in Clacton-on-Sea on 21 June.

    Here’s what you need to know about Nigel Farage’s mastery of TikTok

    Sophia Smith-Galer
    While most politicians haven’t taken the platform seriously, the Reform UK leader is an astute content creator, says the writer Sophia Smith Galer
  • Keir Starmer with Labour placard in background reading 'Change'

    Could the WhatsApp election hurt Labour at the polls?

    In some constituencies – often with large Muslim populations – a parallel viral campaign focuses on emotive issues such as Gaza that rarely feature in national coverage
  • A man looking at a mobile phone with its screen pixellated

    Children could be blocked from social media as well as porn sites in Australian trial of age check technology

    Authorities in talks with Instagram and Facebook about taking part in $6.5m test of online safety measures

1 July 2024

  • Social media logos on smartphone

    Supreme court remands decision on Republican-backed social media laws to lower courts

    Laws in Florida and Texas were designed to restrict big tech’s power over alleged bias towards conservative speech
  • A security guard next to a Meta sign showing the address 1 Hacker Way

    Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks

    European Commission objects to ‘pay or consent’ model for users of Facebook and Instagram
  • The G8388 Loop high-speed train is passing through Kunshanba town in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on June 15, 2024.

    China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack

    Clampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and child

June 2024

  • From the series Zwischen den Jahren ( Between the Years) by Valentin Goppel. Published by Gost books £40 https://gostbooks.com/products/zwischen-den-jahren

    Observer book of the week
    Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes review – deep dive into the teenage mind

    An academic psychologist’s insightful and compassionate study of adolescence is expertly presented, plotting out harmful as well as helpful transitions into adulthood
  • A Palestinian flag and an Israeli flag

    Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network

    The Guardian used public records and open source materials to identify Daniel Linden of the Shirion Collective
  • Meta Vice President and Global ahead of Safety Antigone Davis (on screen) appears via videoconference during an inquiry into Social Media and Australian Society at Parliament House in Canberra

    ‘Arrogant’ tech companies must ‘fess up’ to harm done to children by social media, Albanese says

    Meta’s claims that social media doesn’t harm children ‘can’t be taken seriously’, inquiry told
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