TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Do Kwon in custody : It looks like law enforcement caught up with Terra creator Do Kwon, who was reportedly arrested at the Montenegro airport, Jacquelyn writes. Despite saying he was cooperating with law enforcement, Kwon’s whereabouts have been unknown since September. TikTok questioned on ineffective teen time limits, by Sarah.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company has promoted encrypted messaging across its ecosystem, encouraged limits on how mobile apps can gather data, and fought law enforcement agencies looking for user records. The system doesn’t report anything to Apple moderators or other parties. What does Apple’s new iCloud Photos scanning system do?

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

The same “Karens” who get annoyed about noisy children can also be those users who racially profile Black people in their neighborhood and call the police on any “suspicious teens” they see (who are invariably people of color). This specific tool was removed last month. “As As a black person, I don’t feel safe at all using [Nextdoor]”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s a solid dunk and emblematic of a broken legislative system, something difficult to pass up as lawmakers struggle to pass any meaningful infrastructure funding this week. Basically, Facebook depends on teens for growth,” Blumenthal said. Finstas are fake Instagram accounts. Finstas are kids’ secret second accounts.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Epic’s complaint argues that behavior also breaks the law. Apple, which has presided as gatekeeper over one of the most lucrative gaming booms of the last decade, has now removed one of the most popular mobile games ever made from its store, one played by kids and teens around the globe. One week later, Epic made its move.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's another to have the education to support that desire, to support that change, and so we're looking at long-term, sort of systemic and generational change, not necessarily just short-term fixes, and that takes pretty profound work and education to do. And then, of course, we have a strong commitment to economic development, as well.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. Will there be conferences for Orkut experts to exchange best practices?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. Will there be conferences for Orkut experts to exchange best practices?

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

Work to create a fairer judicial environment for nonprofits NIA has been working for several years to help pass common-sense laws in the most problematic states to help level the playing field so that nonprofits are not being held accountable for things over which they have no control. This is not insurable.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s still unclear which members had direct control of internal Twitter systems and how exactly they gained access beyond somehow tricking company employees, but the supposed mastermind of the hack is believed to be 17-year-old Floridian Graham Ivan Clark, who has been charged as an adult with 30 felonies.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The announcements follow a recent investigation by NBC News into a spate of deaths involving teens and young adults who were suspected of having bought fentanyl-laced drugs through the social network. The social network was also accused of taking too long to provide information to law enforcement.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Twitter won’t say what caused the account to be frozen, but environmental groups worry it’s part of a broader trend of powerful stakeholders exploiting Twitter’s moderation system to silence climate activists. The suspension has drawn concern from around the world. This is unacceptable.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Early on July 31st, the FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement placed a 17-year-old in Tampa, Florida, under arrest. Who got inside Twitter’s systems, though? It’s not clear if the Tampa teen is Kirk#5270, though it sounds like that’s possible. Illustration by Alex Castro. This is not a game.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

While fabricating such claims for blackmail purposes is obviously completely terrible, it’s actually quite surprising this female gang felt confident enough in a judicial system’s possibility of believing women that they used it as a weapon. That might be a modern read, but I'm intrigued. So, what did they do with all that loot?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Inspired by her mother's Riot Grrrl past, Vivian decides to expose systemic sexism at her high school through the anonymous zine MOXiE!, To All the Boys I've Loved Before Bubbly, sweet, and impossibly charming, Netflix's 2018 teen romcom hit To All the Boys I've Loved Before has spawned two sequel films and a spin-off series.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

We don’t know how it’s happened or even to what extent Twitter’s own systems may have been compromised. Twitter is, for better and worse, one of the world’s most important communications systems, and among its users are accounts linked to emergency medical services. The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

We follow Tre, now a teen who aspires to go to college, as he gets entangled in a world of gang rivalries with his friends. Boyz n the Hood isn't a film simply about gang violence, but one that showcases the ways America's long history of systemic racism and anti-Blackness have trapped its characters in a cycle of violence and poverty.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Romm, American Edge is set up to ”navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors.”. The current system is working for small businesses, and as the old saying goes: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” he wrote.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

SEE ALSO: Teens are talking to AI companions, whether it's safe or not Reed, a veteran of three Democratic presidential administrations, will lead Common Sense AI, which advocates for more comprehensive AI legislation in California. One teen of the plaintiff allegedly received a suggestion by its chatbot to kill his parents.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

How much of the low turnout should be attributed to the teens, and how much should be attributed to other factors — like that pandemic, for example? In the moment, Trump versus the TikTok teens offered a canvas that anyone could project their hopes and LOLs onto. It will use the system developed by Apple and Google instead.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

SEE ALSO: DOGE damage is just getting started, IT experts warn WIRED reported on many of the names involved with DOGE last month and many of them were young, inexperienced tech workers in their teens and early 20s who idolize Musk. While concerning, this is not disqualifying on its own.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. Stylistically, they’re laws. Rascally TikTok teens are trying to pull one over on the president again. The United States is retaliating against France’s imposition of a “tech tax” with new tariffs. The Hill ).

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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. Got some great feedback on yesterday’s column about how content moderation systems can replicate offline injustices. Ali Breland / Mother Jones ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. The company said Fortnite can return to iOS at any time — so long as Epic removes the custom in-app payment system that triggered the game’s removal in the first place. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 21, 2025

As Mashable's Stan Schroeder explains it , "Apple TV is both the name for the set-top-box hardware device that you buy and connect to your TV, as well as the app that's available on Apple TV (the set-top-box), as well as Macs, iPhones, and other TV operating systems. So, what are the best TV shows on Apple TV+?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Barrett writes (PDF): Ellen P.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our algorithms are designed to identify representative Tweets that aren’t potentially abusive, spam, or posted by accounts trying to take advantage of our system. They served the teen with a search warrant at the home where he lives with his parents. Apple and Google created a new automatic app system to track COVID exposures.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Most notably, the project forced Facebook to consider how it prioritized “user engagement”—a metric involving time spent, likes, shares and comments that for years had been the lodestar of its system. And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump.

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