Headlines For Nov. 26, 2021
The University of British Columbia
Understanding TikTok’s impacts on public health
TikTok has acquired more than one billion monthly users in just five years, but the influential video-sharing app remains one of the least studied social media platforms around. Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine want to change that.
The Statesman
Big Tech must address risks with targeted online ads: UK watchdog
The tech giants are facing immense scrutiny around targeted online advertising, data privacy and spread of misinformation on their respective platforms.
Japan Today
Thousands of vulnerable people harmed by Facebook, Instagram are lost in Meta ‘average user’ data
Fall 2021 has been filled with a steady stream of media coverage arguing that Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram social media platforms pose a threat to users’ mental health and well-being, radicalize, polarize users and spread misinformation. Are these technologies – embraced by billions – killing people and eroding democracy? Or is this just another moral panic?
The Straits Times
Disinformation threat needs govt intervention, but people are first line of defence: Desmond Tan
SINGAPORE – Disinformation is a pernicious threat that is hard to neutralise once falsehoods are propagated. “Falsehoods can be exaggerated and sensational, baiting persons to pass on the falsehood to their own little social circles,” said Mr Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs, and Sustainability and the Environment.
The Northern Daily Leader
The flood of misinformation on water || Council volunteer awards || Hills of Gold ‘tree-changers’
Water seems to have grown into one of those topics you don’t discuss at dinner parties, joining religion and politics, but if common sense and the facts prevailed in public discourse then water and its many uses would not be nearly as controversial.
