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A call to arms to rethink social mediaJust in: The U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, called for a warning label for social media platforms in a Times Guest Essay, advising parents that the technology may be helping fuel a mental health crisis among adolescents. It’s the latest effort by regulators to impose restrictions on social networks — particularly over their effects on children and teens — and is a reminder of the increasing scrutiny of global tech giants. In his guest essay, Murthy writes that the issue has become an emergency:Why is it that we have failed to respond to the harms of social media when they are no less urgent or widespread than those posed by unsafe cars, planes or food? Scrutiny of social media’s effects on teenagers has grown in recent years. The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt describes the 2007 release of the iPhone as an inflection point, with suicidal behavior and reports of despair among adolescents rising sharply since.

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☆ Surgeon General: Social Media Platforms Need a Health Warning - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Vivek H. Murthy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor. It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents. A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe. To be clear, a warning label would not, on its own, make social media safe for young people. The advisory I issued a year ago about social media and young people’s mental health included specific recommendations for policymakers, platforms and the public to make social media safer for kids.

☆ Why student loan forgiveness sparks anger: A philosopher, attorney general, sociologist and religious thought expert weigh in
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

D'Aungilique Jackson, of Fresno, California, holds a "Cancel Student Debt" sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., after the nation's high court struck down President Joe Biden's student debt relief program on Friday, June 30, 2023. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images'A common-sense fairness question'"There is a common-sense fairness question when it comes to erasing student debt," Griffin wrote in an email to CNBC. "Our priorities should be preventing and alleviating student debt, rather than insisting on a narrative of personal responsibility." So student loan forgiveness may affect more Democrats than Republicans directly." Some who oppose student loan forgiveness view education as a private commodity that benefits the person who purchases it."

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☆ Opinion | A Warning on Social Media Is the Very Least We Can Do
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

You’re in the middle of a public health emergency involving a dangerously addictive substance — let’s say an epidemic of fentanyl or vaping among teens. Issue a warning. In the midst of a well-documented mental health crisis among children and teenagers, with social media use a clear contributing factor, the surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, recommends choice one. As he wrote in a Times Opinion guest essay on Monday, “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”It’s an excellent first step, but it’s a mere Band-Aid on a suppurating wound. We need to strongly regulate social media, as Europe has begun to do, and ban it for kids under 16.

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☆ The US has a rich drag history. Here’s why the art form will likely outlast attempts to restrict it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Most of those efforts failed, but they have fueled harmful rhetoric around drag performers and the art form itself. Barbara Alper/Getty ImagesDrag has become increasingly visible in recent years through mainstream shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and popular public events such as drag brunches, drag bingo and drag queen story hours, in which drag performers read children’s books to young audiences, often at libraries. Pickle reads from a book during the Drag Queen Story Hour program at a Los Angeles library in 2019. These lawmakers falsely claim that drag performers “groom” or sexualize children, of which there is also no evidence. It’s why Alaska Thunderf**k, the blonde bouffanted winner of the second season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” first got into drag – to make art that wasn’t bound by rules.

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☆ 3 types of ultra-processed foods that may be healthier than homemade
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

These days, whenever experts talk about the irrefutable dangers of ultra-processed foods, they're usually a breath away from mentioning Hall's research. At this point, ultra-processed foods are just a part of our modern life living under a giant commercial food system. Related storiesHere are his best tips for selecting more "potentially healthy ultra-processed foods." Don't assume all ultra-processed foods are created equalCategorizing a food as "ultra-processed" doesn't tell you which nutrients are in it. AP Photo/Morry GashCategorizing a food as an ultra-processed food doesn't technically tell you anything about the nutrients in that particular food.

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☆ Israel is renewing its ban on Al Jazeera under its controversial media law
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The Israeli government is seeking to extend its controversial ban on the Al Jazeera news network in the country, after a court upheld the ban but shortened it by 10 days. Al Jazeera condemned the move as a “dark day for democracy” that sets a concerning precedent for other international media outlets operating in Israel. On Tuesday, a Tel Aviv District Court ruled that the ban on Al Jazeera could stand but was to be shortened to 35 days, meaning it will expire on Sunday. Israel has claimed that Al Jazeera “harms Israeli security,” and has a “close connection” with Hamas, the militant group it is waging war against in Gaza. “Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel’s security and incited against IDF soldiers.

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☆ OpenAI insiders call for company to be more transparent about the ‘serious risks’ AI technology poises to society
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A group of OpenAI insiders are demanding that artificial intelligence companies be far more transparent about AI’s “serious risks” — and that they protect employees who voice concerns about the technology they’re building. “AI companies have strong financial incentives to avoid effective oversight,” reads the open letter posted Tuesday signed by current and former employees at AI companies including OpenAI, the creator behind the viral ChatGPT tool. As the law currently stands, the AI employees said, they don’t believe AI companies will share critical information about the technology voluntarily. Their letter comes as companies move quickly to implement generative AI tools into their products, while government regulators, companies and consumers grapple with responsible use. Meanwhile, Apple is widely expected to announce a partnership with OpenAI at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference to bring generative AI to the iPhone.

Persons: ”, OpenAI, ” OpenAI, Daniel Ziegler, “, Tim Cook Organizations: CNN, Companies, Security, Apple, OpenAI, Conference, ” Apple Locations: OpenAI

☆ Consumer Bureau to Create ‘Corporate Offender’ Registry
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Stacy Cowley | More About Stacy Cowley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday finalized a plan to create a public registry of nonbank businesses that have been penalized for violating consumer protection laws, a roster some have called a “rap sheet” for companies. The goal, the consumer bureau said, is to make it easier for consumers, watchdogs and government prosecutors to identify patterns and recurrences. “Too many American families and businesses have been harmed by repeat offenders in a rinse-and-repeat cycle of illegal activity,” Rohit Chopra, the bureau’s director, said at a news conference. “When companies believe that violating the law is more profitable than following it, this totally undermines public trust and harms businesses who are playing by the rules.”The bureau estimates that at least 1,500 and as many as 7,750 companies will be subject to inclusion in the registry. The database will compile orders from state, federal and local governments and courts against companies that have faced sanctions for lawbreaking.

Persons: Rohit Chopra Organizations: Consumer Financial

☆ Opinion: This deal can end the war in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —It’s taken more than half a year, but, finally, President Joe Biden has publicly unveiled an Israeli plan that could end the bloodshed in Gaza. But getting the two sides to actually agree to — and implement — the peace plan is far from a certainty. As the Gaza war continues, Israel’s dreams of normalization with the Arab world will steadily erode. Support for the Gaza war among Americans has dropped from 50% at the beginning of the war in November to 36% in March, according to Gallup. Evan Vucci/APNetanyahu also keeps fighting the Gaza war with no real plan for the “day after,” in short, without a strategy.

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☆ Owners want out at a super-luxe skyscraper on 'Billionaire's Row': report
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewAn ultra-luxe "Billionaire's Row" residential tower has been mired in a lengthy legal dispute, and some owners are now looking to sell building, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The condominium board at 432 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan — once the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere — first sued the building's developers in 2021. In the three years since the initial lawsuit, the battle has intensified, with more than 4 million pages of documents filed in court, according to The Wall Street Journal. Eighteen units in 432 Park, totaling 14% of the building's units, were listed for sale as of mid-May, the Wall Street Journal analysis found, citing data from StreetEasy.

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☆ Why replacing alcohol with weed is a growing trend in the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The use of weed to replace alcohol is a growing trend in the United States. “We know that moderate alcohol consumption has health risks, and risk increases as alcohol consumption increases,” Boyd said in an email. “Cannabis smoke contains toxins, carcinogens, and particulate matter that have been linked to cancer, lung damage, and cardiovascular disease,” Cohen said in an email. Research on edibles, such as baked goods, candies and beverages, and other methods of using cannabis is in its infancy. “In and of itself, it’s not good that more people are using cannabis,” Grinspoon said.

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☆ Over a dozen GOP states seeking to block student-loan forgiveness through Biden's SAVE repayment plan may have been set back by a separate court ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewLawsuits to block some of President Joe Biden's targeted student-debt relief efforts are simmering — and a court ruling might have signaled how one case will fare. "Plaintiffs have not alleged that any of their employees have stopped seeking PSLF forgiveness because of the adjustment," the court's decision said. In March, 11 GOP state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to block the SAVE income-driven repayment plan, which the Education Department implemented last summer to give borrowers more affordable monthly payments. Economic assumptions alone were not enough for the Sixth Circuit, nor, for that matter, for the Supreme Court," the Education Department wrote in its legal filing.

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☆ Opinion | Biden Underestimates How Much Black Americans Care About This Issue
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-25 | by ( Jerel Ezell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Black voters will not only be a driving force in the 2024 elections; they will most likely be the driving force. One way he could do it is by talking to Black America, especially young Black voters, about a sleeper issue: the climate crisis. Democratic strategists seem to see climate change as a key political issue only for white liberal elites and assume that other groups, like Black voters, are either unaware of or apathetic about it. In reality, Black Americans are growing increasingly concerned about climate change. A poll conducted by the Brookings Institution last September showed that climate change is now a greater political concern for Black Americans than abortion or the state of democracy.

Persons: Donald Trump, Biden Organizations: Democratic, Black, CBS News, Brookings Institution Locations: Black America

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Dow sinks 600 points, Nvidia soars
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Abid Ali | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Dow sinks 600 pointsThe Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst day of the year, dropping over 600 points on Thursday. Nvidia's blockbuster earnings and guidance failed to prop up markets, with more than 400 stocks on the S&P 500 trading lower. Nvidia popsShares of Nvidia soared as much as 11% after the AI chipmaker's earnings that beat Wall Street's estimates. Wall Street analysts are revising their price targets for Nvidia upwards after its blowout earnings and guidance.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Dow, Musk, Elon Musk, he's, Joe Biden, Tesla, Karen Tso, Brian West, General Merrick Garland Organizations: SAP Center, CNBC, Dow Jones, Boeing, Dow, Nasdaq, Treasury, Nvidia, U.S . Department of Justice, Ticketmaster, Wall, Microsoft Locations: San Jose , California, China

☆ What the major Ticketmaster lawsuit means for you
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But the Department of Justice says those complaints are just the symptom of a more fundamental problem with Live Nation. Live Nation, for its part, says even if the lawsuit succeeds, it won’t lead to cheaper ticket prices. An uncertain path forwardTo fix the issue, regulators say Live Nation must be broken up. But based on past criticism of Live Nation, one possible outcome at a minimum could be a spinoff of Ticketmaster. Better customer serviceComplaints about Ticketmaster and Live Nation are nothing new.

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☆ Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s parent company, sued in groundbreaking monopoly lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Brian Fung | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Washington CNN —The US government and dozens of states sued Live Nation in a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, alleging that for years the parent company of Ticketmaster abused its industry dominance to harm concertgoers nationwide. It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.”In a statement, Live Nation called the DOJ’s allegations “baseless.”“The DOJ’s lawsuit won’t solve the issues fans care about relating to ticket prices, service fees, and access to in-demand shows,” Live Nation said in a statement. The lawsuit highlights how regulators now believe, more than a decade on, that the behavioral modifications Live Nation agreed to have failed. According to the lawsuit, Live Nation directly manages more than 400 artists, controls around 60% of concert promotions at major concert venues across the country, and controls more than 265 concert venues in North America. And through Ticketmaster, the suit says, Live Nation controls roughly 80% or more of major concert venues’ primary ticketing for concerts.

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☆ Big Tech goes on AI charm offensive in Europe as regulators circle
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

It's worth noting that their comments come as the world's first major law governing AI, the EU's AI Act, was given the final greenlight. Meanwhile, European Commissioner Thierry Breton, a major architect of rules around Big Tech, is set to speak later in the week. Vogels, who is tasked with driving technology innovation within Amazon , said that AI can be used to "solve some of the world's hardest problems." Manyika said Google open-sourced its watermarking tech so that any developer can "build on it, improve on it." "I am concerned that there is potential for monopolies to emerge around Big Tech and AI," he said.

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☆ Meta created an AI advisory council that’s composed entirely of White men
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Meta this week appointed a group of outside advisors to provide guidance on its artificial intelligence strategy. The four-person advisory group is composed entirely of White men. The situation mirrors an incident last year at OpenAI when, in the wake of a leadership shakeup, it came under fire for appointing a board composed entirely of White men. The large language models that underpin AI systems are trained on vast troves of data, often written by humans and coming from the internet. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the council’s lack of diversity.

Persons: Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lütke, Charlie Songhurst, White, OpenAI, ” Joy Buolamwini, Meta Organizations: New, New York CNN, Microsoft, Meta, League, CNN Locations: New York, OpenAI

☆ How teens view social media’s impact on their mental health
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In conversations about these phenomena, social media has consistently been at the center, though mental health issues can have multiple contributing factors. Those with depression were more susceptible to social comparison and pressure to show their best selves on social media. Many young people reported an inability to control their use, social media distracting from other activities and unconsciously reaching for social media when bored. Ask the teens in your life what they like about these platforms and what types of connections or activities support their mental health, Lenhart said. Let them know you’re there to help figure out a solution if social media is upsetting them or interfering with other responsibilities.

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☆ Legal Weed Is Coming. It’s Time to Come Up With Some Rules. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Maia Szalavitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On May 16 the Justice Department formally moved to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to Schedule III. It is, however, the biggest step yet toward abolishing the legal fiction that cannabis is as dangerous as heroin. And it puts marijuana — used more than any other illicit drug in the world — on a pathway for fully legal recreational use, which a majority of Americans support. It also offers an opportunity to start ironing out the details of what federal cannabis oversight ought to look like if the time comes — both to redress past harms and protect public health. Learning from the experiences of states that have legalized marijuana is essential.

Organizations: Justice Department, Food and Drug Administration, Psychiatry

☆ Cannabis poisonings among older adults have tripled, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But some older adults may be unaware of the strength of today’s weed, and little is known about the health effects of legalizing edible cannabis on older adults — the age group with the largest growth in overall cannabis use a year after dried cannabis flower was legalized in Canada, Stall said. Jamie Grill/Tetra images RF/Getty Images“There’s a bit of an age-related bias that many health care practitioners, and frankly society, hold that older adults are not using drugs. During the eight-year study period, there were 2,322 emergency department visits for cannabis poisoning in older adults who were age 69 on average. Products older adults intentionally use should have dosing information with specific guidance for older adults, “recognizing that the amount of drug they may need is a lot less than younger populations,” Stall said. Health care providers should also have open and judgment-free conversations with older adults about cannabis use and its benefits and risks, he added.

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☆ Here's the deflation breakdown for April 2024 — in one chart
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Consumers have largely seen prices deflate for physical goods, such as cars, furniture and appliances, economists said. They've also declined for some groceries and other things, such as travel, according to the consumer price index. Physical goods prices have deflated in all but one month since May 2023, for example. watch nowThe U.S. dollar's strength relative to other global currencies has also helped rein in prices for goods, economists said. Downward pressure on goods prices has waned a bit in recent months as supply-and-demand dynamics have normalized, economists said.

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☆ Internet access is linked to higher well-being, new global study reveals
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“Our study of over two million individuals from 160+ countries runs contrary to this idea.”People with access to home internet and/or mobile internet and actively use internet report greater well-being across eight different categories — including life satisfaction and social life, according to a study published Monday in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior. Across all those ways of crunching the numbers, about 85% showed that those who have and use the internet report greater well-being that those who do not, according to the research. Other research has shown that the connection between mobile internet use and well-being is complex and varies among individuals, he added. “Our results might then simply indicate that individuals with more money, access to healthcare, etc, report greater well-being,” Vuorre said in an email. The internet is used for a wide variety of things — including online banking, shopping, finding services, reading the news and cyberbullying — and those different uses will have different effects on well-being, Vuorre said.

Persons: ”, Matti Vuorre, Markus Appel, people’s, ” Appel, ” Vuorre, Vuorre, cyberbullying —, hasn’t, don’t, Appel Organizations: CNN, Tilburg University, Technology, Gallup, University of Würzburg, ” Locations: Netherlands, Germany

☆ High inflation harms older households — and two factors determine who is most at risk, research finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

This year, Social Security beneficiaries saw a 3.2% increase to their benefits. The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment may also be 3.2% in 2025 based on the latest government inflation data, estimates Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst. That estimate may change between now and October, when the Social Security Administration announces next year's cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA. The average Social Security COLA has been 2.6% over the past 20 years, according to The Senior Citizens League. Many households tend to cut back on savings and increase withdrawals to try to lift themselves to where they were before inflation picked up.

Persons: Lourdes Balduque, Mary Johnson, Social Security COLA, Laura Quinby, It's, Quinby, Warren Buffett's Organizations: Social, Social Security, Social Security Administration, Senior Citizens League, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, Center for Retirement, Finance

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