We need to end the great social experiment on our children
If 83% of Irish children have access to the internet at night, that means the entire online world has access to 83% of Irish children at night
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It’s time to ban the toxic teen popularity counter
Now that the Australian social media ban is here, surveys that suggested 80% of parents supported it in theory are beginning to look wildly optimistic
A grand social media experiment begins in Australia. Will it work?
The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical
Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience?
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th
Judge laments ‘lack of knowledge’ about sexual consent as man given three-year sentence
Offences took place in skatepark in January 2022, when both the man and the victim were 17
Man who travelled to Donegal to meet ‘fictional child’ to stand trial
Man (20s) charged with communicating with another person for purpose of facilitating sexual exploitation of a child
Teacher who had sexual relationship with Leaving Cert student is struck off by High Court
Social media contact with two students was innocuous at first but became sexualised, hearing told
‘I was horrified that any parent would give a nine-year-old a smartphone’
Ask Brian: More than a quarter of primary schoolchildren and a third of secondary school students are now using artificial intelligence
Amazon says most cloud services restored after widespread outage
Snapchat among popular sites hit by outage
Snapchat to begin charging users to store photo and video ‘memories’
‘It’s never easy to transition from receiving a service for free to paying for it,’ the company said
We made a big mistake allowing our children to use social media. Now we’re doing it again with AI
Family of US teen is suing Open AI, alleging its ChatGPT played a role in encouraging him to take his life
My five biggest tech regrets, from not-so ‘smart’ kettlebells to video sunglasses
Ever tried an ‘electronic nose’? A ‘smart hydration tracker’? Some gadgets are either surplus to requirement or just duds
Zuckerberg says Meta has more competitors than FTC claims
US government is arguing that Instagram acquisition should be unwound
Study shows few effective age controls at social media firms
More than 1m underage users of Meta, Snap in Australia, report says, ahead of law banning such users
Parents, if you’re going to ban anything, ban devices from bedrooms
A number of children told us they regularly sleep with their phone under their pillow
Norma Foley’s pouch plan acknowledges that phones cause harm. It may yet see her end up in history books
Plan signals mobile phones – and by extension social media platforms – are detrimental to children. The question now is what the Government will do next
Age of influencers: how content creation has become the toughest of dream jobs
‘Influencing’ didn’t exist as a career 20 years ago but it’s now one of the most popular, with ever-younger people aspiring to become the next big thing on social media
Roblox and YouTube main sources of online content which ‘bothered or upset’ primary school children - report
Online safety charity says there is ‘vital need’ for online safety education in schools
Age checks for social media aimed at protecting primary schoolchildren are ‘broken’, says Norma Foley
Up to half of sixth class pupils included in Snapchat groups in some schools
‘There is enormous damage being done’: Social media firms grilled at Oireachtas committee
Legislators should be ‘much more aggressive’ in holding technology firms to account, Oireachtas committee told
Super Bowl turns into Swift Bowl as Taylor’s fans adopt Kansas City Chiefs
Planet Business: Tech earnings takeaways, McDonald’s Middle East troubles and a former pop star at the Pop Con launch
Social media is 20 years old. How are we still getting so much wrong?
Burden of protecting children online cannot fall exclusively on parents - Big Tech must stop prioritising profit over child safety
Court strikes off teacher who sent inappropriate Snapchat messages to girls
High Court hears man described one of the girls, who were aged 13 and 14, as a ‘little ride’
Online safety commissioner ‘had to ask’ some social media platforms to take down Navan schoolboy attack video
Commissioner asked platforms to report to her about their handling of video shared more than five million times
Overuse of smartphones ruining ability to study, say many secondary students
Social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram are most popular among students who spend several hours a day online
Social media algorithms causing ‘profound damage’ to young people - Stephen Donnelly
Minister for Health says it is time to ‘get behind the curtain’ of how tech firms operate to be better able to protect children and adolescents
A chatbot that can advise teenagers how to hide pot and lose their virginity? Nothing creepy about that at all
Breda O’Brien: Teenagers, not known for their extensive fact-checking or emotional balance, are expected to train Snapchat’s My AI monster for free
We often don’t notice the walls around our pretty internet playgrounds
Karlin Lillington: I’d like to think we’ve reached a moment of reconsideration where people will opt for an open web model with more freedom, less surveillance, and greater user control
Markets rally after days of turmoil fuelled by bank worries
Traders in Dublin say Thursday was a ‘day of two halves’ amid late session rally
Advertising giant WPP sees 2023 revenue gains above analyst estimates
Experts had predicted flat growth for company
Social media influencers fail to label half of advertisements, watchdog finds
Consumers admit to being misled by product recommendations and have flagged concerns about crypto and other ‘finfluencing’
‘TikTok is eating the world’: short-video app building itself into an advertising juggernaut
Reach among young adults overcomes advertisers’ concerns about group’s Chinese owners, content quality and problems with bot traffic
Snap shares plummet as advertising demand slumps
Social media company says it will ‘substantially reduce’ hiring and shake up strategy
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