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These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online
The New York Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoWASHINGTON — Deb Schmill has become a fixture on Capitol Hill. Last week alone, she visited the...
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety
The New York Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoIn April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive use...
A landmark New York bill would restrict social media for children. Here's what to know.
ABC News via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoNew York state is weighing landmark legislation that would prevent tech platforms like Instagram and...
Canva’s rap battle is part of a long legacy of Silicon Valley cringe
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoYou thought the hottest rap battle of the summer was between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. At its Canva...
'Generation Swipe': What a new era of social media regulation means for young people
ABC News via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoIf your last social media scroll was within the past 24 hours, you're one of more than half of...
Larry Ellison bought an entire island and Jeff Bezos owns a $78 million property there, but eBay's...
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance Canada· 2 months agoPierre Omidyar, the founder and former chairman of eBay.Ramin Talaie/Getty Forbes put out a list of...
Aaron Sorkin is working on a Jan. 6-focused follow-up to The Social Network
Engadget via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoAaron Sorkin has announced that he’s currently writing a followup script to The Social Network. The...
Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoIt's not just TikTok. Solen Feyissa/Flickr, CC BY-SA When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion...
School board social media lawsuits: For too long we’ve sought individual solutions to a collective...
The Conversation Canada via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoFour Canadian school boards are suing social media giants. This comes as 95 per cent of Ontario...
Social media empowers disinformation operations. What can the EU do about it?
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoBrussels has started to recognise that social media platforms are not just digital town squares, but...