Tag: Social Media
Health: Death from a TikTok Challenge
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A 12 year old boy in Oklahoma died last month after participating in a social media challenge he found on TikTok. Young people...
Health: Social Media and the Anti-Vaxx Cause
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There have been anti-vaccination activists long before there was such a virus as Covid-19. The anti-vaxx cause makes a variety of accusations against...
Broader Powers for Facebook’s Oversight Board
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Facebook, the world's largest social network, announced last week that it is beefing up the powers of its Oversight Board, the board that...
Congressional Challenge to the Electoral College Votes
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In what is an extremely rare development, some of the pro-Trump diehards in the House and Senate are seeking to turn what is...
Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook
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At the time when the economic and social power of social media has become a major political issue, one of the pioneers of...
Health: Social Media and Misinformation
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A recent report from an activist group (Avaaz) highlights the great flood of misinformation reaching the public through social media, especially through Facebook,...
Social Media Companies are not Publishers (for now)
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Twitter's recent decision to fact check and otherwise tag certain of the tweets of the President of the United States has put it...
Social Media and the anti-Vax Cause
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A social media storm erupted recently when an anonymous individual said that he has figured out an alternative to vaccination ... and the...
Trump hosts conservative social media personalities at White House
President Trump's White House summit aims to air our grievances over political bias on social media platforms. Invitees are mostly comprised of prominent, and sometimes controversial, online right-wing pundits. #FoxNewsLive #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX…
This social media site just banned all support for Trump
Knitting community 'Ravelry' bans all Trump supporters; Melissa Francis weighs in on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #Tucker #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer…