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10.06.26 - 12:21
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Health Team To Monitor Wastewater, Social Media At World Cup For Outbreak Detection (ZeroHedge)
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Health Team To Monitor Wastewater, Social Media At World Cup For Outbreak Detection
Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times,
Public health specialists have launched a dedicated surveillance operation to detect infectious disease threats early during the 2026 World Cup by analyzing wastewater samples and monitoring online chatter.
The 39-day tournament begins on Thursday in Mexico. Organizers estimate more than 6.5 million soccer fans from more than 100 countries will attend 104 matches spread across venues throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The global travel of a worldwide audience to packed stadiums across North America creates conditions for the rapid transmission of pathogens, according to health security experts. The United States will host 78 of the 104 matches.
A team led by Rebecca Katz, director of Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security in Washington, has transformed a university laboratory into an epidemiological command center. T...
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09.06.26 - 14:48
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UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content (The Guardian)
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Ofcom move follows concerns about misinformation and online claims over police response to Henry Nowak stabbingSocial media companies have been ordered to have emergency measures in place to stop illegal content going viral, as regulators battle to stop the type of misinformation spiral that circulated after the 2024 summer riots.Sites such as X, formerly Twitter, and TikTok will have to have a “crisis protocol” in place to intervene when the sharing of dangerous content begins to rise. Continue reading......
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07.06.26 - 14:30
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Most Teens Aren′t Going To Social Media For Politics (ZeroHedge)
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Most Teens Aren't Going To Social Media For Politics
Teens turn to social media for multiple purposes: to catch up with friends, for entertainment and to connect with others over similar interests.
However, as Statista's Anna Fleck reports a possible misconception, however, is that many are going to platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok for politics.
According to a recent survey of 1,458 teenagers in the United States, conducted between September 25 and October 9, under one in three respondents said that keeping up with politics or political issues was a main personal draw towards each of the respective social media platforms.
You will find more infographics at Statista
While most teens said that politics was not one of the main reasons for using the apps, U.S. teens were most likely to turn to TikTok and Instagram for political content (29 percent and 28 percent, respectively, said they would), followed by Snapchat (19 percent).
More popular reasons to use TikTok were ente...
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02.06.26 - 15:31
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How Lawsuits Alleging Social Media Harms Threaten Big Tech (Bloomberg)
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A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — a landmark verdict....
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02.06.26 - 13:09
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Social-Media-Verbot? Ministerinnen diskutieren mit Schülern (DPA-AFX)
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POTSDAM (dpa-AFX) - Mehr Schutz im Netz für Minderjährige: Dafür haben sich Bundesbildungsministerin Karin Prien (CDU) und Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) bei einer Diskussion mit Schülerinnen und Schülern an einem Potsdamer Gymnasium klar ......
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02.06.26 - 05:12
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Malaysia enforces under-16 social media ban (IntelliNews)
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Moving to curb digital harms, the federal government, on June 1, officially began enforcing a blanket prohibition barring children under the age of 16 from creating or operating independent social media accounts....
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31.05.26 - 14:45
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"It′s All So Tiresome": UK′s Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward (ZeroHedge)
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"It's All So Tiresome": UK's Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward
Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,
The UK government's “consultation” on social media harm is over, and – brace yourselves – it turns out they're going to have to do something about it.
I know, I was shocked too.
The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it's the meme of the day.
It's a sentiment originally taken from a new report submitted to the consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
Titled “Growing up in an online world”, it contains this hilarious line in the foreword:
…there is, I think, an overwhelming consensus that excessive screen time can harm children and young people and we need to call this out unflinchingly rather than passively wait for someone else to prove causation”.
Which is a pretty neat summary of how our political system works in general, and certainly in this case: We don't know if there'...
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