Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

SEE ALSO: Why teens are telling strangers their secrets online In fact, of the 970 people between ages of 13 and 28 surveyed for the Made of Millions report, 431 of them were in some phase of what the researchers described as a mental health "journey." She also advises people to vet the influencers they follow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Reddit announced that it has acquired short video platform Dubsmash. Dubsmash will retain its own platform and brand, and Reddit will integrate its video creation tools. Its co-founders, Suchit Dash, Jonas Drüppel and Tim Specht, will join Reddit. The deal’s terms were undisclosed.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Buwanka, 25, is an Instagram influencer in Colombo who despised cannabis as a schoolkid. So as a teen, I was the first to report my classmates if they smoked ganja,” said Buwanka, who only wanted to reveal his first name. While his customers come from all walks of life, Dinesh said that most of them are teens. It’s cheap.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music. Two, TikTok keeps finding new users.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

But Facebook has always said that the service works so well because you can trust that the person you’re talking to is actually your friend or family member, and not someone who is faking their identity to influence you toward some malign purpose. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The other fear is that China will influence ByteDance, either directly indirectly, to push a worldview that embraces censorship and political oppression on America and the world at large. I think Reddit is the strongest argument against decentralization solving it all. But political pressure can’t be fixed with security audits.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

America’s two hottest teen tech brands, Microsoft and Walmart, are teaming up for a bid. Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters. But there’s still the question of who will own TikTok, and today an odd new challenger appeared.

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