Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Thursday, Nov. 7
How much time do you spend on social media?The Independent recently ran an article identifying six ways social media negatively impacts your mental health: self esteem, human connection, memory,...
View ArticleAfter online harassment, Immunize Nevada cancels two events in one month
The nonprofit Immunize Nevada, a coalition that educates people on vaccinations, says it has had to cancel two events in December. Lack of interest? Lack of need? No and no. According to executive...
View Article2 Florida students face charges after TikTok video shows them tripping black...
Two white Florida high school students face misdemeanor battery and cyberbullying charges after a social media video went viral showing them tripping a black student and then laughing when the girl...
View ArticleSo far, no suspension for Texas teens who held a "Slave Auction" online
Aledo, Texas, an exurb of Fort Worth, has made headlines when multiple students from Aledo ISD’s Daniel Ninth Grade Campus partook in a “slave auction” via a Snapchat group. The group was initially...
View ArticleOnline School Bullying: Moving Toward Solutions
Michael StricklandI still remember my tears from high school. Sometimes, even though it is decades later, they still come out on my pillow. I cringe as I think about the pain so many young people are...
View ArticleFeminist groups have signed an open letter condemning harassment towards...
More than 130 feminist leaders, including Gloria Steinem, have signed an open letter in support of Amber Heard, who lost a Virginia defamation case against ex-husband Johnny Depp last June. Heard, who...
View ArticleThe unnecessary death of Adriana Kuch
Adriana Kuch, a 14-year-old student, passed away 48 hours after a video of her being viciously attacked in a hallway at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, NJ, was circulated on social...
View ArticleElon Musk says he’ll take NPR’s username if they don't return to Twitter
For weeks, Elon Musk applied his top-notch middle-school bully tactics to NPR on his failing social media network, Twitter. First Musk tagged NPR as “state-affiliated media,”which is not, and never was...
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