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As AI Gets Smarter, Humans Get Dumber
Test scores are falling, and a big part of the reason is that kids are addicted to their phones and outsourcing their brains to AI.
Meta’s Mixed-Bag Settlement
The company that owns Facebook and Instagram just reached an $18 billion settlement to protect kids, but does it really do that?
Meta Is in Big Legal Trouble
Four states have banded together to sue Meta over its contribution to addiction and the mental health crisis among minors.
UK Joins Youth Social Media Ban Brigade
The United Kingdom will bar those under 17 from accessing social media websites, but its law goes much further by demanding identification for everyone.
TikTok Harpies Mock Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
This is just the latest in a series of hateful, sickening attacks on Kirk, his mourning family, Turning Point USA, and conservatism writ large.
Tennessee Bill Bans Influencers From Exploiting Their Kids
Many social media influencers who moved to this economic haven from the Left Coast will have a tough decision to make on whether to stay.
Protect Kids, Not Meta
For the first time, a state won a lawsuit against a Big Tech company over the danger social media can often pose to children.
Zuckerberg Dodges and Weaves in Liability Case
Are social media platforms like Instagram responsible for the harms that affect teenage users? A Los Angeles jury will decide.
Social Media Trap Gets Marched to the Courthouse
Meta and Google are having to prove that their social media apps aren’t addictive and detrimental to adolescent mental health.
A Precarious TikTok Deal
The great negotiator, Donald Trump, has facilitated a long-overdue deal, but there’s still concern that the Chinese retain the ability to spy on Americans.
Gen Z Is Opting for Freedom of the Mind
Our youngest voting cohort is choosing to steward its screen time in a way that gives it back its freedom.
Australia’s Intriguing Ban of Social Media for Teens
The Australians are putting their children’s mental health and safety first and doing what it takes to protect them from social media harm.
A Real Russian Scandal Goes Worldwide
X recently added a location feature, exposing countless bot accounts and leading to broader questions about social media.
Trump’s TikTok Deal
Months after the legal deadline, a consortium of Americans will take over significant ownership of the social media company; however, China will still get a 20% stake.
The Storm Cloud That Is Bluesky
Predictably, the Left’s alternative social media platform to the free speech haven of Elon Musk’s X has become a cesspool of hatred and ugliness.
Meta’s Creepy Pedophilic Behavior
Artificial Intelligence chatbots were allowed to use sensual language with children — and it was authorized by Meta’s legal, public policy, and engineering staff.
Social Media and MSM Free Speech Suppression Is Thriving
Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the use of fact-checkers, subjective content policies, and failure to promote certain “civic content” have been Meta’s primary methods for suppressing political speech.
Is the Kids Online Safety Act Now Nefarious?
By taking away parental control and giving it to the Federal Trade Commission, this well-intentioned bill’s latest iteration could create more problems than it solves.
Good News: Leftist Knockoff Bluesky Is Flailing
The communistic social media echo chamber is dominated by progressive scolds and is too toxic even for some diehard leftists. The death throes have apparently begun.
James Comey Plays Dumb About ’8647’
He’s a Trump-hating partisan who knew he was setting off a firestorm, but it’s also overwrought partisanship to claim that the former FBI director was calling for Trump’s assassination.