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Author and adolescent psychotherapist Katie Hurley is scheduled to speak about online conflict, rumors and social exclusion among young people in two free Zoom webinars Oct. 20, according to the GPS Parent Series.The presentation, “The New Bully: Confronting Online Conflict, Rumors, and Social Exclusion,” is set for noon and 7 p.m. Links and details are...Read More
State attorneys general say billions of dollars from Meta’s teen social media settlement should go toward youth mental health, but the deal itself requires little of that spending, according to a New York Times report summarized by KFF Health News on Oct. 13. Meta agreed in August to pay as much as $17.1 billion to...Read More
Washington. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI is facing growing legal challenges after eight US states filed lawsuits against its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. The states allege that the chatbot could endanger children, provide dangerous medical advice and mislead users in sensitive situations. The complaints also accuse the company of violating consumer protection laws. However, these remain allegations...Read More
In the summer of 1975, Steven Spielberg’s ”Jaws” hunted in the shallow waters off the fictional New England town of Amity while a sexual predator, pastor and father roamed undetected in my small town using his daughter, my friend, as bait.My friend, let’s call her Gwen, was soft-spoken and pretty. I was hyper and dorky....Read More
OPINION — When parents think about bullying, they may picture a confrontation in a school hallway or a cruel comment at lunch. Those situations still happen, but social media and messaging apps have extended bullying well beyond the school day. A child can be home, sitting beside a parent, while classmates target them on their...Read More
Metro AtlantaAttorney General Chris Carr says the ruling is ‘a major win for Georgia families.’Georgia won an appeal Thursday in a case challenging parts of its new law requiring social media platforms to verify the age of account holders and restrict use by minors. A panel of federal judges ruled the state can enforce the...Read More
The Supreme Court of India has asked the Central Government and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to respond to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding the safety of children on social media platforms. The plea, filed by Emerald Heights International School in Indore and its director of academics, Siddharth Singh Girnar,...Read More
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — As news of school shootings spreads quickly through classmates, social media and around-the-clock coverage, a PeaceHealth child psychologist says parents should not wait for children to bring up what they have seen or heard.Arissa Walberg, a child psychologist with PeaceHealth, said children are likely to learn about school shootings from other sources,...Read More
Last week, Australian Federal Police commissioner Krissy Barrett warned that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are not a sufficient replacement for human support for children. The comment was in response to a recent Adelaide University study that found more than one in three Australian children turn to AI chatbots for support when they are sexually victimised online, or otherwise tell...Read More
