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The temporary boycott led to the removal of music from artists including Harry Styles Adele, Billie Eilish, Drake, Post Malone, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West.
Five Ontario school boards are suing the companies behind major social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, alleging their addictive products have caused the students to suffer from mental health issues, and causing widespread damage and disruption to the education system.
Is a cellphone ban, along with increased surveillance, the right way to deal with the impact of addictive and harmful technology in classrooms?
Teens say ‘for you’ algorithms get them right.
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Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.
It’s not just TikTok.
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TikTok is hardly a model social media platform, but it’s also far from an outlier when it comes to threats to Americans.
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In the court of public opinion, Anthony Albanese’s rejection of the up-yours attitude of the man he labels an arrogant egotistical billionaire is Likely to resonate with many Australians.
Tiktok is not the only social media app to pose the threats it’s been accused of.
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If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.
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These tests can even be harmful to the people being ‘tested’, as well as to the couple.
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Phonk isn’t just a new-age TikTok trend. It’s the music of a generation rallying against the state of the world.
Given the current state of the economy and governmental policy, it’s unsurprising that so many are lured by the appeal of passive income.
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The idea of passive income is often glamorized, but the reality is that many of these ventures require significant effort.
Some fault teachers for an inability to restrict phone use at school. But both students and some parents resist this, and problems far exceed in-class distraction. A student puts her phone in a holder at Delta High School in Delta, Utah, in February 2024.
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Four Canadian school boards are suing social media giants. This comes as 95 per cent of Ontario schools report needing more resources to support student mental health.
Social media apps can cause children to become increasingly distracted.
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Four Ontario school boards have filed a lawsuit against social media platforms to force them to change practices that harm schoolchildren.
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Can eating lots of pineapple change the smell and taste of the vulva and vagina? An expert examines the latest fruity vaginal health hack.
TikTok’s features for combining users’ videos lend themselves to political disputes.
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TikTok’s features for combining different users’ videos have sparked a wave of creativity. They’ve also formed an arena for political arguments and insults.
US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo thinks that blocking TikTok would lead to Democrats ‘literally losing every voter under 35, forever’.
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Many Democrats fear that banning TikTok would lose them votes from young people.
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Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok vie for our attention and boast billions of users. Ultimately, what matters is connection.
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TikTok has come into the spotlight after the US. congress proposed a bill to force it's sale away from Chinese owned company ByteDance. To discuss this we're joined by Cyber expert Lesley Seebeck.
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TikTok has mobilised its vast user base to contest a possible US ban, plus it could challenge it in court as an infringement of people’s free speech.
Thomas Raggi of the band Måneskin performs a concert that streamed live on TikTok in 2021.
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For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
Health information is increasingly being shared online, and often the borders between legitimate health expertise and pseudoscience aren’t clear.
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How do we distinguish between valuable information from legitimate health experts, and pseudoscientific nonsense from unscrupulous wellness influencers?
TikTok poses no more of a threat to democracy than other social media platforms.
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About 26 per cent of Canadians use TikTok. Regulating the app in Canada might be a better approach to avoiding external political influence.