Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?

The anti-smartphone movement is having a moment. On March 25, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning children under 14 from social media platforms. In February, the UK government backed tighter guidance to keep children from using their smartphones at school. In the past year, grassroots organizations like Smartphone Free Childhood have risen to […]

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US Lawmakers Ask SEC to Launch Fraud Investigation Into Elon Musk

On September 10, 2023, Mr. Musk responded to animal welfare concerns at Neuralink via a post on the social media platform X, which he also owns. He wrote: “No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant. First our early implants, to minimize risk to healthy monkeys, we chose terminal mon[k]eys (close to […]

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The Push for Ad Agencies to Ditch Big Oil Clients

Here is a completely true statement: Between 2015 and 2019, oil and gas firms doubled the share of their capital spending going to renewables and carbon-capture technologies. Here’s the chaser: That accounted for less than 1 percent of Big Oil’s overall capital investment, according to the International Energy Agency; 99 percent still went to oil […]

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Doctors and Nurses Take to TikTok to Fight Covid Myths

When Christina Kim joined TikTok, she was looking for a new form of entertainment. Like many people during quarantine, she scrolled through the platform aimlessly, liking funny dance videos and posting clips about being a mom and nurse practitioner during the pandemic. But after a while, she noticed a concerning trend: videos and comments filled […]

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The Professors Who Call ‘Bullshit’ on Covid-19 Misinformation

Some conservative figures have rallied around the deleted Medium post, which the author has reposted elsewhere, saying its removal unfairly quashed his freedom to express his opinions. Bergstrom says his debunking of the post and intervention on the Seattle ICU thread have triggered waves of online abuse. He believes his fact-checking attempts have been flagged […]

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