Australia accuses major social media firms of not doing enough Teens easily circumventing age-assurance measures put in place Maximum penalty for not upholding the ban doubled to $68 million Planned update to law also strengthens regulator’s information-gathering powers SYDNEY — Australia said on Saturday it would double the maximum penalty it can impose on tech firms found […]
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Australia's ban on social media accounts for children has failed to produce an immediate drop in use among adolescents, according to an analysis published this week in The BMJ. The study casts doubt on the world's first national age-based restriction, even as governments in Europe and North America attempt similar measures. — Read the rest
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Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender continues to face intense scrutiny from longtime fans, with one of the streamer’s promotional posts briefly receiving a Community Note after viewers accused the series of getting one of Toph Beifong’s defining abilities wrong. Although the note has since been removed from X, screenshots quickly spread online, […]
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The way to Hel is back (Picture: Michal Dobrasa/PKS Gdynia via Reuters)
‘All aboard for Hel!’ may well have been heard at Warsaw’s western station on Friday as a controversial bus service made its triumphant return.
Coach operator FlixBus has resurrected the notorious 666 bus route, three years after religious complaints forced the bus to change its number.
In Christian tradition, 666 is known…
Andrea Bello has died protecting her daughter from the earthquakes (Picture: Héctor Bello/Instagram)
The body of brave mum Andrea Bello was discovered protecting her one-year-old daughter after the earthquakes broke out in Venezuela.
Her husband, Marítimo de La Guaira player Héctor Bello, penned an emotional tribute to her, asking for ‘strength’.
Miraculously, their toddler, Alana, survived…
## Cellphone ban in Oakland public schools starts in August
In a rare moment of alignment, OUSD’s board, parents and teachers agreed on a new rule — no smartphones during the school day.
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A plane has crashed into Beijing’s famous CITIC Tower skyscraper, also known as the China Zun.
The small aircraft broke into pieces, plummeting to the ground after hitting the city’s tallest building, which stands at 109-storeys.
It appears…
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Remember the infamous “Delhi Bois Locker Room Controversy” from 2020? Screenshots from an Instagram group allegedly showed schoolboys sharing morphed images of girls on social media and engaging in conversations that shocked the entire nation. In 2024, a teenage influencer from Kerala reportedly died by suicide after facing relentless online harassment after a breakup. In […]
Sir Rod Stewart addresses backlash over gig cancellation (Picture: Jack Taylor – WPA Pool / Getty Images)
Earlier this month, Sir Rod Stewart faced fan backlash for appearing at a World Cup game shortly after cancelling a gig due to health reasons.
He scrapped the show 40 minutes before it was due to start, but the next day was cheering on Scotland at a Men’s World Cup match, with his sons and…
Remember a few years ago when both Texas and Florida passed laws trying to tell social media companies they couldn’t moderate political content? Those cases eventually made their way to the Supreme Court, where the Court (as it’s been known to do) kinda punted: sending the cases back to the lower courts on technical legal […]
Long queues snarling back through the car park formed at Lidl Southampton as people battled to get their hands on a Tronic air conditioning unit (Picture: Samuel Williams/Solent News)
People enduring the record-breaking heatwave tried to snatch a Lidl air conditioning unit, but several stores sold out quickly.
Shoppers are up in arms after failing to beat the rush to buy one of Lidl’s bargain…
In confronting an unprecedented wave of anti-government protests, Albania’s prime minister is trying to discredit those taking part and deflect attention from their legitimate grievances. The strategy may yet backfire.
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What young people really need is to learn how to navigate the internet responsibly
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Earlier this month, the UK parliament passed a law targeting children and teenagers’ social media use instead of the true root of the issue. The social media ban for under 16s is not just another example of our government virtue signaling in an attempt to save face. It is also an example of its inability […]
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Content warning: The following report contains references to a school shooting, including deaths and injuries. Stricter social media regulations for minors were called for by some Filipinos after reports that online content appeared to be glorifying the involvement of minors in the Tacloban City school shooting. A Reddit user on Tuesday, June 23, expressed concern after […]
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“Respecting women should not be conditional.” This was the sentiment expressed by some Filipinos amid online discussions about content creator LANS and debates over how women should present themselves in a certain way to gain engagement. LANS, also known as Louise Anne Nagal, is a veterinary medicine student who has gained online attention for her content […]
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Irish artist Niall de Buitléar's eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices video art from the mid-1960s through mid-1970s together with recent social-media clips — most of them, in his words, "people alone in a room filming themselves performing for the camera." — Read the rest
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Australia, the UK, and the UAE have now all banned social media access for under-16s. But experts say the ban’s impact is likely overstated. Gen Alpha is finding new ways to socialize online and making culture conversational again.
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I remember when I was in high school, and Facebook wasn’t even a thing yet. We had Myspace, and nobody posted anything political on it. We all worried about how many friends we had, and it was like a competition to see who had the most. My sophomore year, I think, is when Facebook was […]
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A new study suggests Instagram may shape not just how people judge their looks but how their brains decide what counts as their own face
The Sixth Circuit just handed Ohio a win on its social media law restricting minors, and reading the majority opinion, it’s immediately obvious why: the court fell hook, line, and sinker for the moral panic that social media is inherently poisonous to children. The first few pages of the decision are nothing but cherry-picked, out-of-context […]
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman split last year (Picture: Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman extended an olive branch to her ex-husband, Keith Urban, over the weekend.
The Oscar-winner took to social media to wish her children’s dad a happy Father’s Day — one of the first times she has publicly reached out to him since their split in September last year.
The former couple, who share Sunday Rose, 17,…
Comedian Simona Ruzer's East Richmond upbringing left her feeling like an outsider to classic Berkeley culture. Now her TikTok parodies of the "North Berkeley mom" have earned more than 250,000 views — and her hometown is the punchline.
In delayed crisis responses, there is a lesson to take away: Silence breeds noise. Noise derails us from the path towards truth.
Police have arrested a man following a “series of incidents” around Edinburgh in which four people were injured.
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A taxi driver narrowly escaped after an axe was thrown through his window in a suspected terror attack in Edinburgh.
CCTV footage appears to show a topless man driving erratically before abandoning his car and lunging at a random black man and…
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A murder investigation has been launched after a man was stabbed in south-east London early this morning.
Police were called to Westow Hill, Crystal Palace, at 3.39am on Sunday by the London Ambulance Service after reports of a stabbing.
Officers found a 30-year-old seriously injured man who was treated at the scene and…