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24.08.26 - 13:18
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Minister tells social media firms to remove posts that ′celebrate′ dangerous driving after A66 crash (The Guardian)
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Luke Pollard says government will force platforms to remove content, after latest deadly crash involving a car driving in wrong directionA minister has pressed social media companies to remove content from their platforms showcasing dangerous driving after a fatal collision that killed seven people in Middlesbrough.The crash in the early hours of Saturday, in which PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough died, occurred when a Volkswagen Passat, containing five individuals aged between 23 and 17, crashed head-on with a marked armed response vehicle while driving the wrong way on the A66. Continue reading......
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24.08.26 - 08:48
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Anti-Social Media (ZeroHedge)
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Anti-Social Media
Social media may have been built to connect people, but entertainment and diversion now appear to be its main draws.
As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Statista Consumer Insights, nearly half of U.S. respondents say entertainment is an important criterion when it comes to social media, ahead of passing time and communicating with friends and family.
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Among young adults aged 18 to 29, the social dimension of social media is even less pronounced: 32 percent cite staying in touch with friends and family as important, compared with 37 percent who value simply passing time.
With only 25 percent naming meeting new people as a priority, the findings illustrate how social platforms increasingly function as an always-on source of content, diversion and passive consumption, as opposed to it original purpose of staying in touch with friends.
Tyler Durden
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24.08.26 - 08:30
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New Zealand to consider banning children under 16 from social media (The Guardian)
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Prime minister Christopher Luxon's party to introduce bill seeking the ban, citing harm to a generation of childrenNew Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon has said his party will introduce a bill in parliament that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, proposing fines of up to 10% of a platform's global revenue for non-compliance.The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users' ages, including by utilising existing account information, facial technology and digital identity documents. Continue reading......
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23.08.26 - 16:06
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Meta Trial: How Social Media Lawsuits Threaten Big Tech (Bloomberg)
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A flood of lawsuits 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 personal injury case to go to trial, a Los Angeles jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — awarding $6 million to a 20-year-old woman in a landmark verdict....
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21.08.26 - 17:12
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Teen Drops Social Media Addiction Claims Against Meta, Google, & Snap, Ahead Of October Trial (ZeroHedge)
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Teen Drops Social Media Addiction Claims Against Meta, Google, & Snap, Ahead Of October Trial
Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times,
A 15-year-old New Jersey girl whose lawsuit served as a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of designing platforms to addict young users dropped her remaining claims Thursday against Meta Platforms, Google, and Snap Inc.
The plaintiff, identified in California court records only as P. M-Y., had alleged the owners of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat contributed to her social media addiction, depression, and self-harm.
She dismissed the case without any payment from the three companies, according to a court filing and statements from the defendants. TikTok, also named in the suit, had settled earlier.
Emily Jeffcott, an attorney for P. M-Y., said her client chose to end the remaining claims so she could try to resume her life.
She “initiated this process with the goal of holding social media companies accountable and to pus...
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