Meta on defense: Social media company supports cohesive legislation for youth safety
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Meta supports federal legislation to protect youth on social media but with the requirement of parental consent.
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Warner: Biden administration needs to step up social media misinformation fight
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner thinks the Biden administration has been “too restrained” in its pushback against a MAGA-backed legal effort to prevent the White House from working with social media companies to combat the flood of misinformation.
‘Time for Congress to act’: Parents confront social media execs about harm to children
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Parents who have lost children to exploitation on social media platforms faced off against chief executives in a Senate hearing Wednesday.
Can’t stop TikTok: Virginia is obsessed with Chinese social media app
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An analysis of Google searches ranks states by their obsession with social media app TikTok, owned by Chinese-based ByteDance.
Warner encourages voluntary communication of social media companies with government
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The Supreme Court decided to hear arguments in a case that will decide how government officials can communicate with social media companies.
Radford University campus threatened on social media, appears to be swatting incident
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The Radford University campus is safe after a social media post mentioned a potential threat to the university.
Alabama mayor’s social media accounts as a transgender woman revealed before death by suicide
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On Nov. 1, a conservative blog revealed an Alabama mayor’s alleged secret life as a transgender woman. Two days later, he died by suicide.
My couple of days getting dragged on social media by a UVA Football alum, his peeps
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Among the things that I learned about myself from getting dragged on Twitter the past couple of days by the fans of a UVA Football alum: I’m “elderly.”
Legislation would allow social media users control of third-party management of privacy
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Social media users expect account privacy, but do not always get privacy. Information on social media is easily shared with third parties.
Augusta County School Board shuts down discussions on social media pages
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The Augusta County School Board voted last week to disable comments on social media posts, despite free-speech concerns noted by two board members.
