The Crisis of Youth Mental Health in the Age of Social Media #MentalHealthCrisis #SocialMediaImpact #YouthWellness #AlgorithmicHarm #MentalHealthMatters

The AI hype cycle is cooling as actual returns falter and public trust plummets, revealing overinflated promises and systemic biases. Realising the potential requires honesty, transparency, and accountability—moving beyond hype to meaningful innovation. Discover more at dev.to/rawveg/the-ai-hype-cr… #HumanInTheLoop #AIHypeCrisis #PublicTrustErosion #AlgorithmicHarm

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📵 Big Tech Cannot Be Allowed to Function Without Guardrails — India Must Lead on Social Media Curbs for Kids With 54% of India's population under 25, the stakes couldn't be higher. Yet our response to the social media crisis affecting children remains fragmented. ⚠️ The Harsh Reality: • Teen screen time now averages 8-10 hours daily — excluding schoolwork • Platforms use infinite scrolling, autoplay and algorithmic nudges — engineered for compulsion, not connection • Links between phone-based social media and rising youth anxiety and depression are well documented • Children fall prey to online predators, cyberbullying and addiction by design 🌍 The World is Acting — Is India? • Australia banned social media for children under 16 (late 2025) • Indonesia restricted minors under 16 from major platforms (March 2026) • US Surgeon General called for cigarette-style warning labels on social media • Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have proposed restrictions — but piecemeal responses are not enough 🇮🇳 India's Imperative India built UPI, DigiYatra and DigiLocker — systems that combine scale with trust. That same leadership must now extend to digital well-being. Age verification, platform accountability, digital literacy and shared responsibility across parents, schools and policymakers is the need of the hour. We owe our children a childhood that is curious, open and unhurried — not one surrendered to algorithmic appetites. Should India introduce a national social media policy for minors? 👇 #ChildOnlineSafety #SocialMediaRegulation #DigitalWellbeing #KidsSafety #BigTech #ScreenTime #MentalHealth #IndiaPolicy #DigitalIndia #ParentingInDigitalAge #YouthMentalHealth #TechAccountability #OnlineSafety #DigitalLiteracy #SocialMedia #AIEthics #TechPolicy #ChildProtection #FutureOfIndia #ResponsibleTech #AlgorithmicHarm #TeenMentalHealth #ParentalControl #DigitalParenting #IndiaInnovation #NationalPolicy #TechForGood #MindfulTech #SocialMediaBan #ProtectOurKids

When the Wire Becomes the Hazard: How X Corrupts the Research It Claims to Serve Researchers, journalists, and analysts rely on X as an indispensable real-time information source—but the platform's design has turned what could be a precision tool into a grinding cognitive hazard that systematically erodes the judgment of the people who need it most. The Problem Isn't Just Annoyance. It's Epistemological Corruption. For those who cannot simply log off, X presents a cruel paradox. Human rights monitors tracking state propaganda must inhabit the platform where that propaganda circulates. Election analysts need real-time access to what's actually spreading, not a curated feed. Disinformation researchers have to swim in toxic material to study it. These aren't optional users—they're captive audiences with professional obligations. The platform's ranking system privileges emotional charge, conflict, and spectacle over clarity and verification. On day one, a researcher can distinguish signal from noise. By week two of continuous exposure, the algorithmic amplification has flattened their baseline. Real threats and trivial controversies feel equivalently urgent simply because they're shouted equally loud. Genuine narrative shifts become indistinguishable from performative outrage. The Hazard Isn't the Annoyance—It's That Annoyance Masks Judgment Degradation. The constant low-grade psychological friction makes the work exhausting, yes. But it conceals something more dangerous: the slow corruption of analytical reliability itself. Researchers stop noticing they're being distorted. They rationalize degraded judgment as personal burnout. They don't recognize that X's design is doing the corrupting—that they've become statistical artifacts of the algorithm rather than independent observers. X doesn't need to censor these professionals. It just needs to keep them in a state of continuous cognitive disruption while they're trying to conduct high-stakes analytical work. That's the real hazard. The platform offers cosmetic controls but no structural protection. Any safeguard comes from self-imposed workarounds—an implicit admission that X, as built, is incompatible with sustainable professional research. The people doing the most important narrative work are the ones paying the highest cognitive and health cost for a system fundamentally tuned for engagement over integrity. #XPlatform #ResearcherBurnout #EpistemologicalCrisis #DisinformationMonitoring #JournalismUnderPressure #PlatformAccountability #CognitiveHazard #HumanRightsMonitoring #MentalHealthMatters #AlgorithmicHarm #NewsroomReality #InformationIntegrity #StructuralExploitation #PlatformDesignFail #WorkerWelfare

You don’t need to listen to people to control them. You just need to model their behavior. And that’s exactly what Big Tech is doing. 1/10 #weakup #AlgorithmicHarm #MustRead #ViralThread 🧵

Social media was meant to inform, but during political crises it often exhausts. Fear-driven algorithms thrive on anxiety, not awareness. #AlgorithmicHarm #SocialMediaImpact #CrisisFatigue stratheia.com/psychological-…

🤖 "Daños algorítmicos" #AlgorithmicHarm o los peligros de que la #InteligenciaArtificial decida por los humanos. Una breve reseña del más reciente libro de Bar-Gill y @CassSunstein linkedin.com/posts/revista-c…

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This International Women’s Day, Institute for Governance, Policies & Politics (@IGPPVMF) brings to a special episode of #IGPPExpertTalks: Technology and Women in Democracy Ms. Nidhi Sudhan, in conversation with Ms. Heena Goswami, explores how the DPDP Act fails to address women-specific digital harms. Rather than reactive takedowns, proactive regulation incentivizes platforms to prevent harmful content—especially filter bubbles that distort young women's body image and relationships. True protection requires preventive governance targeting algorithmic influence before damage occurs. #WomenInTech #DigitalSafety #GenderEquality #BigTech #OnlineHarassment #Deepfakes #FutureOfWomen #TechForGood #CyberSecurity #WomenInPolitics #WomenDigitalRights #DataProtection #DPDP #AlgorithmicHarm #OnlineSafety

I feel so lucky to have worked with @DZytko and @meslami2 on our @ACM_CSCW paper about the perceived #AlgorithmicHarm in relationships. Huge credit goes to them for making this happen! Check out the preprint of our paper below 👇🏻 #CSCW #HCI #OnlineDating #Tinder #AI

There's no racial justice without algorithmic justice. The social implications of #AlgorithmicHarm are far-reaching. Employment, academic advancement, loan eligibility, medical attention... all are on the line. Donate to help us fight today at ➡️ DONATE.AJL.ORG!

On this day in 1865, the last enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally informed of their freedom, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Today, we continue to see that there is no racial justice without algorithmic justice. Host a @CodedBias watch party to hear the stories of Black people who experienced #AlgorithmicHarm, fought the system, and triumphed through resistance and organization. They are the #Excoded. codedbias.com

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