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Danah Boyd

  • Social Media Scholar, Researcher and Advocate
Ithaca
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Cornell University | Author of "Data Are Made, Not Found" | made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io/
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Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.

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By Michal Luria, Danah Boyd
| MIT Technology Review Verified
Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social media—barring children under 15 from major platforms, before the ban was blocked by the country’s top court on human rights grounds. The UK aims to forbid kids under 16 from accessing Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms in early 2027, and the EU has announced its own plan to prohibit social media for kids under 15.
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KOSA isn’t designed to help kids.

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By Danah Boyd
| Medium
Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process. In a few minutes, the Senate Judiciary will start a hearing focused on “Big Tech and the Online Child Exploitation Crisis.” Like most such hearings, this will almost certainly go off the rails in a wide variety of directions that I can’t even predict.
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Fact Check Resources Miniguide 2024

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By Marcus Zillman, Phil Muncaster Verified, Danah Boyd
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