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☆ How Fizz, an anonymous messaging app for Gen Z, tore a high school apart
  + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The app became available to the 1,300 students at Champlain Valley Union High School this May. AdvertisementWhen Champlain Valley Union High School students downloaded the app, the messages were initially innocuous. AdvertisementSolomon told the Journal that the Champlain Valley Union High School incident was an anomaly. "To confirm, we suspended the Champlain Valley Union Fizz community after working directly with school administrators," the statement read. AdvertisementA Champlain Valley Union High School representative did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Persons: —, Lio Miller, Miller, Ashton Cofer, Teddy Solomon, Oliver Hardt, Adam Bunting, Bunting, MANDEL NGAN, Yik Yak, Solomon, Gen Z Organizations: Service, Champlain Valley Union High School, Wall Street, Business, Stanford, Yik, McKinsey Health Institute, Champlain Valley Union High, Union High School Locations: Vermont, Champlain Valley, Champlain
☆ A new social media app for high schoolers has dethroned TikTok and BeReal in the App Store rankings — and is surprisingly not toxic
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A new app for high schoolers is ranked #1 in the app store right now, beating out BeReal and TikTok. The app "Gas" lets users send anonymous compliments to their friends and classmates through polls. Gas app screenshotsAnonymous social media apps for teenagers have a history of burning up in flames. "Gas" app screenshotsCurrently, the app is fighting a different kind of controversy: a rumor spreading across TikTok and Snapchat that it's involved in human trafficking. Right now, "is gas a sex trafficking app" is a top Google Search query related to the app.
☆ University of Utah student arrested in alleged threat to detonate school's nuclear reactor if football team lost, officials say
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
The 21-year-old student posted the threat on the social media application Yik Yak, according to a university statement. “She acknowledged posting the statement and was arrested and taken to the Salt Lake County Jail and booked for making terroristic threats,” officials said. The University of Utah’s nuclear reactor, Hinojosa said, is secured and alarmed and police have unique protocols for managing any breach of the facility. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Utah is one about 25 universities with a nuclear reactor. Fans watch at the Utah Utes and the San Diego State Aztecs football game in Sept. 17, 2022.
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