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The Imprint app can help you make better use of the time you spend endlessly scrolling through social media. Here’s how it works.
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What the Tech: Why your Facebook account needs some cleaning up
You don’t just need to keep your home clean. Your Facebook account probably could use some cleaning, too. Here’s how.
Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens and fight sexual extortion
Instagram says it’s using new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together investor group to buy TikTok
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he will put together a group to buy TikTok after the U.S. House passed a bill that would ban the platform in the U.S. if its China-based owner does not sell its stake.
U.S. lawmakers say TikTok won’t be banned if it finds a new owner
U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running.
What the Tech: Help for parents whose children are victims of sextortion
Here are ways parents can get help if their child is a victim of online sextortion scams.
What the Tech: Teenagers who put nude photos online can now get them removed
Social media companies are working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to use an online tool called “Take It Down” to help sextortion victims.
Meta, TikTok, other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation
The CEOs of some of the largest social media companies testified before a Senate committee as lawmakers and parents grow increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.
Christmas gift reaction in Montgomery goes viral on social media
The emotional reaction to a Christmas gift goes viral — when video of the response is posted on social media. Soon to be 16 year old London Milton of Montgomery — got the car of her dreams — this Christmas. And she can’t stop smiling about it. “I know right. I was just in shock,” she said. “Like, I didn’t…
What the Tech: More than three dozen states sue over social media addiction claims
Attorneys general in 41 states are suing Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, claiming the company knowingly uses features that get kids hooked on the social media networks.
