Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b...
by hypertele-Xii on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:37AM
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"but this time it's different!"
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Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b...
by lulzury on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:17AM
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You might be interested in taking a look at "Adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review" [0] by Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge which goes into detailed studies and datasets showing a rise in recent years in teen suicide, as well as the associations between heavy social media use and bad mental health outcomes, particularly for girls [1].
[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6W...
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...
Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b...
by blub on Monday July 04, 2022 @08:53AM
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That’s a heuristic which like all heuristics will fail to work in some cases.
This is one of them - we’ve never had private hostile organizations with immense budgets trying to manipulate and help themselves to the private information of regular people at global scale before.