Nearly all headteachers believe social media is harming their pupils’ mental health and want a …
Virtually all headteachers believe social media is harming their pupils' mental health and want action to protect young people, according to a poll today. It revealed that most have been told of students being bullied or exposed to unsuitable material, such as sexual content or hate speech. Many school … Read …
Invicta FC celebrates International Women’s Day with inspirational social media posts
In the world of MMA, perhaps no organization promotes female fighters quite like Invicta FC, the all-women's promotion led by president Shannon Knapp. “We are all about the female athlete,” Knapp recently told MMAjunkie. “And I think that we are able to make stars quicker here for some reason. Read …
Prominent Chinese feminist social media account censored on International Women’s Day
Prominent Chinese feminist social media account censored on International Women's Day. 9 March 2018 13:57 … The Feminist Voices account on Sina Weibo, one of China's most popular social media platforms, received a notice saying it was suspended due to “irregularities” late on Thursday evening. Read More
Social media sites harming pupils’ mental health, heads warn
Nearly all of those polled said that they had received reports of pupils being bullied on social media, with 40% saying incidents were reported on a daily or weekly basis, while almost all had received reports of pupils encountering material including sexual content, self-harm, bullying or hate speech, with … Read …
Comment – Abuse of our children can occur on any social media
I might be paraphrasing what Communications Minister Denis Naughten is saying, but his basic point is Facebook (including Instagram), Twitter and Snapchat are putting more effort into safety initiatives than smaller, newer services. In one sense he is right. Because of its size and pervasiveness, … Read More
Empowering our youth with social media guidance: Katie Coombs
1) There is nothing private about social media. Snapchat is probably one of the most dangerous applications that teenagers use and they feel safe sending inappropriate pictures because they disappear in seven seconds. But a screen-shot takes just a second and whatever is sent is now captured on a … Read …
Social media and fake newsOn Twitter, falsehood spreads faster than truth
ACROSS the French countryside, in the summer of 1789, rumours swirled about vengeful aristocrats bent on the destruction of peasants' property. It was not true. The Great Fear, as it is now known, tipped France into revolution with a flurry of fact-free gossip and rumour. Two centuries later the methods … …
Study: Social media lies travel faster than truth
FILE – This Oct. 26, 2016 file photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. A new study published Thursday, March 8, 2018, in the journal Science shows that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches …
‘Fake news’ spreads faster online than the truth, finds biggest-ever study
Their study, published today in the journal Science, is one of the largest long-term investigation of fake news on social media ever conducted. The role of social media in spreading misinformation, propelled by bots or malicious actors, has been heavily scrutinised since the election of US President … Read More
Social media posts about a suspicious man in Whitestone sends community into a frenzy
The 109th Precinct sought to reassure Whitestone residents that their kids were safe after numerous social media posts claimed that a suspicious man had allegedly approached local children and tried to get inside a public school. Residents and parents took to Facebook groups in the Whitestone area … Read More