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Protecting Childhood from the Digital Vice Industry
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (517+ words) Fast-forward to 2020, when we found ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic. We made the choice to live our whole lives onscreen rather than risk contracting a virus. But a couple years later, something finally snapped in the American…...
Social Media Bans for Kids: Do They Work?
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (351+ words) Below is a lightly edited and abridged transcript of our discussion. You can listen to this and other episodes of Explain to Shane on AEI.org and subscribe via your preferred listening platform. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us…...
Group unveils strategy to tackle online gender abuse
5+ hour ago (303+ words) Journalists for Christ International Outreach, Nigeria, has unveiled a youth-focused factsheet designed to help young people recognise and safely respond to misogyny and technology-facilitated gender-based violence in campus and digital spaces. JFC Nigeria Focal Person for the TFGBV project and…...
We Have to Talk: Reporting Is Not the Same Thing As “Platforming”
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (348+ words) Human content, AI powered search. Lauren Boebert posted a video response to media reporting on an ethics complaint alleging she had relationships with current and former staffers. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) speaks to reporters after attending a briefing with U.S. Secret…...
Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (499+ words) Published Sep 21, 2026 5:23 PM EDT For years, human rights monitors have been outraged at the selective policing of content on Meta’s social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The company’s latest enforcement action is hardly shocking at this point, but it…...
How can Europe boost kids’ safety online? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot
19+ hour, 39+ min ago (231+ words) The EU is doubling down on online safety to address rising youth health issues linked to addictive platform design and excessive screen time. The Commission’s new EU Kids Act bans children under 13 from accessing social media, including Instagram, TikTok and…...
OPINION: Did Merriam-Webster really need a glow-up?
5+ hour, 55+ min ago (450+ words) Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Merriam-Webster defines “copium” as “avoidance, denial, or minimization (as of a bad situation, problem, outcome, etc.)…...
Kids who played outside unsupervised developed one trait psychologists say is now rare
11+ hour, 6+ min ago (478+ words) 3DVF Kids who played outside unsupervised developed one trait psychologists say is now rare Riding a bike to the edge of town, climbing higher than any adult would allow, coming home when the streetlights buzzed on: that used to be the…...
Tehran’s Mystery Lights: Shiny, Multi-Coloured Objects Seen 50 Years After 1976 'UFO Sighting"
6+ hour, 15+ min ago (279+ words) Fifty years after Iran’s famous 1976 Tehran UFO incident, mysterious multicoloured lights are again trending over the capital. Viral clips appear to show a bright object hovering near the Azadegan Expressway. But the location, altitude, distance, speed, size and identity have…...
Man encounters a ‘creepy dude’ talking to himself in Union Square. He then reveals that he developed an app to keep people like him away
6+ hour, 23+ min ago (266+ words) Albet’s experience is not much different. In a TikTok video, he said he encountered a suspicious man who appeared to be talking to himself while walking beside him at the farmers’ market in Union Square. “There was a creepy dude…...