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Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

Futurism

I t's a platform where millions of monthly users the company has declined to say how many are children and teens, but it's clearly a dominant portion of its audience engage in immersive conversations with AI chatbots designed to act like real-life celebrities, beloved fandom characters, and original personas. is striking.

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Lawsuit alleges harmful content on TikTok contributed to deaths of two teens

TechSpot

Filed in the Créteil judicial court, the lawsuit claims that TikTok's algorithm suggested videos to the teens that promoted suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders. Read Entire Article

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Facebook says Instagram is not ‘toxic for teens,’ despite damning WSJ report

The Verge

On September 14 The Wall Street Journa l published a story to The Facebook Files, which is a series of stories based around an enormous cache of internal Facebook documents leaked to the newspaper. Raychoudhury ignores many of the issues raised in the WSJ piece, including that teens claimed they felt addicted to Instagram.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 SoftBank plans to sell stakes worth over $175 million, Oyo said in the filing. Oyo is ready to explore the public markets.

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Pheed and Sulia: Two New Social Networks for the Nonprofit Early Adopters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Primarily a mobile social network, Pheed also allows easy desktop publishing of status updates, photos, video and audio files, and enables users to broadcast live. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens? Pheed :: pheed.com :: pheed.com/nonprofitorgs. Sulia: The Hottest Social Network you’ve Never Heard Of.

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Twilio gets hacked, teens ditch Facebook, and SpaceX takes South Korea to the moon

TechCrunch

The most read story this week is on a Pew study that suggests this generation of teens has largely abandoned the platform in favor of Instagram/YouTube/TikTok/etc.; whereas in 2014 around 71% of teens used Facebook, the study says in 2022 that number has dropped down to 32%. other stuff.

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This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of Instagram

The Verge

The Wall Street Journal reported that the files showed Instagram knew the social media network has a negative affect on teens’ mental health. Facebook has pushed back on the WSJ’s characterizations of its research, saying that “it is simply not accurate that this research demonstrates Instagram is ‘toxic’ for teen girls.”.

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