The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With(vice.com)

12 points by celadonuproot 1 month ago | 1 comments

Austin Gave Poor Families a Basic Income. It Changed Their Lives(vice.com)

8 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 0 comments

OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership(vice.com)

250 points by BoggleOhYeah 6 months ago | 89 comments

ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)(vice.com)

167 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 71 comments

X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company(theverge.com)

84 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 98 comments

The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination(vice.com)

76 points by thunderbong 6 months ago | 52 comments

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.

The case for banning children from social media(newyorker.com)

321 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 496 comments

A New Yorker column by Jay Caspian Kang arguing the case for banning children from social media and examining proposed ways to protect kids.

The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok(vice.com)

367 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 209 comments

Vice Motherboard article arguing the RESTRICT Act's broad language could allow bans on far more than TikTok, potentially including VPNs and other tech.