“How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds everyday” July 26, 2017 — 17 minutes Never before in history have such a small number of designers – a handful of young, mostly male engineers, living in the Bay Area of California, working at a handful of tech companies – had such a…
The following content is written by Matt Achhammer for the Empathy Project. https://www.facebook.com/EmpathyProjectOnline/ Empathy starts early. Some scientists theorize and show that we are effectively innately empathetic. That is, we have what are called mirror neurons in our brain that are able to connect on a basic empathetic level with…
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Opinion | It’s Not Kids With the Cellphone Problem, It’s Parents
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Banning phones in school is hard. But it’s the right thing to do.
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.
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Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational
Solving the Social Dilemma: Many Paths to Social Media Reform
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A guide to the laws and policies proposed around the world
10 Tips for Healthy Video Game Habits
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Learn how to help protect your child’s well-being and safety with our 10 tips for healthy video game habits.
Social Media and the Teen Mental Health Crisis | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Opinion | Schools should ban smartphones. Parents should help.
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The evidence that smartphones harm young people is impossible to ignore. Why are parents helping to keep them in schools?
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The lawsuits demonstrate the broad bipartisan interest in protecting kids and teens from online harm.
AI fake nudes are booming. It’s ruining real teens’ lives.
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AI makes it easy to create fake nude photos of anyone. Data shows an unprecedented boom in 2023.