The Bird Tweets SenseTwitter Founder Jack Dorsey Announces Platform‑Wide Ban on All Political Advertising "While internet advertising is ... powerful ... for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics." By Aditi Murti
Inside CloutFemale Health Experts Lack the Twitter Influence of Their Male Peers, Study Finds The conclusion is reflective of a larger pattern in research, academia and policy that routinely sees men's voices elevated over women's, online and off. By Liesl Goecker
Look Before You SleepLack of Sleep From Social Media Affects Mental Health More Than the Actual Apps Do “While we obsess a lot about social media, how much do we obsess about how much our young people sleep?" By Anubhuti Matta
Can We Uninvent This?Using Social Media to Cope With Stress May Cause More Stress Tech-related stress can arise from information overload, the need to conform to peers online, and even website interface changes. By Aditi Murti
Plug The LeakPeriod Trackers Are Feeding Facebook Data About Women’s Sex Lives, Contraceptive Use Facebook's Software Development Kit collects personal data that can be used to target app users with ads. By Aditi Murti
Selective EntryFrom Open Books to Locked Accounts: Inside the World of Finstas and Alt Twitters Private social media accounts allow women open expression and refuge from online harassment. By Aditi Murti
Behind The ScenesInsider Peeks at Celeb Glamor Just Raise the Bar for Beauty Instead of exposing the effort and cost of beauty, shows like the Kardashians' make us hustle harder to be perfect. By Liesl Goecker
Too Big For A JarInstagram Has Diluted Zero‑Waste Living to an Aesthetic True reuse may not look photogenic, but it still needs to be seen. By Aditi Murti
Call of DutyNews Reporting of Sexual Violence Is Propagating Rape Culture By not exploring the 'why' behind the sexual violence, the media distances rape from societal realities. By Pallavi Prasad
Bird BrainedTwitter as a Teaching Tool Hampers Critical Thinking Skills Study finds using Twitter to understand a complex subject gives students a false sense of smartness. By Rajvi Desai
Private EyeWhatsApp Compromised by Hack That Transfers Spyware by Missed Calls It's the latest in a growing trend of cyberwarfare that threatens personal data privacy. By Liesl Goecker
Off The GridBeing a ‘Deletist’ Might Be the Only Way to Protect Your Data Data is the new oil, and tech companies will stop at nothing to monetize your online behavior. By Nadia Nooreyezdan
Expecto DisappointumThe Faux Progressivism of J.K. Rowling The author has been retrospectively inserting woke themes into the Harry Potter universe and it's gravely opportunistic. By Rajvi Desai
Millennial SnubHave You Been Phubbing People? The trend of ignoring people for your phone is an annoying, and damaging, part of the 21st century. By Nadia Nooreyezdan
Blood MoneyPeriod Tracker Flo Has Been Sharing Users’ Health Data with Facebook, Reports WSJ Just when you thought the social media platform couldn't get any more creepy. By Liesl Goecker
The Kids Are (Not) All Right‘Sharenting’ Is a Natural Impulse, But Sets Up Kids for Corporate Exploitation Parents don't own the photos they post -- social media platforms do. By Priya C. Kumar, The Conversation
Big SpenderFacebook Knowingly Tricked Kids Into Spending Money on Online Games Released documents show employees referring to 13-year-olds as ‘whales.’ By Nadia Nooreyezdan
#perspectiveWestern Bias Colors Fight Against Online Abuse of Women Amnesty International is leading development of AI that can ID abusive language -- in American English. By Liesl Goecker
