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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. A calculator on Fredrickson’s website for her book Positivity can help you evaluate your own positivity ratio. Positive thinking has a tipping point, as well.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Snapchat

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Your nonprofit must always be proactive and reserve your username on social networks. The same can be said of the new legally verified.NGO domains.

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Content moderation issues are taking center stage in the presidential election campaign

The Verge

I spent the weekend watching three stories unfold at the intersection of social networks and politics. During the initial George Floyd protests earlier this month, a big question was whether the social networks would take action against President Trump for one of his bad posts. Let’s take them in turn.

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

The Verge

The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web is calling for a new “social media standards board.” Marc Ginsberg says social networks should lose Section 230 immunity if they fail to comply with its regulations. ( Rascally TikTok teens are trying to pull one over on the president again. The Hill ). That is not a typo.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

The Verge

In fact, they introduced something called “the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act” on Tuesday , the point of which seems to be to stop social networks from doing so much moderating.). Joe Biden’s campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account created by a teen supporter. Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost ).

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It’s (still) time to end ‘Trending’ on Twitter

The Verge

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. They served the teen with a search warrant at the home where he lives with his parents. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Sorry for the errors.

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