Reddit Study Shows Power of Community Guidelines in Combating Harassment

New research on one particular corner of Reddit suggests that online communities are actually a lot more responsive to ground rules of civility than one might expect.

https://www.inverse.com/article/55348-r-science-experiment-community-guidelines-prevent-harassment

Meet the fake people who will soon crowd your timelines

A remarkable advance in artificial portrait generation adds a new potential layer of deception to online fraudsters, astroturfers, and propagandists.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90332538/meet-the-fake-people-who-will-soon-crowd-your-timelines-deepface

The new school bullies aren’t children – they’re parents

Furious Facebook posts, abusive emails, school sit-ins, menacing behaviour: the bullying of staff by parents is becoming increasingly common and can have devastating consequences.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-new-school-bullies-aren-t-children-they-re-parents-20190416-p51ej1.html

Teen suicides spiked in months after Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’

A study released this week and published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry said there was a 29% increase in suicides among American teenagers aged 10 to 17 in the month (April 2017) after the show aired.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teenage-suicides-have-spiked-since-the-debut-of-netflixs-13-reasons-why-2019-04-30

Inside APTN’s history-making Cree NHL broadcast

It took the better part of a decade to bring to life but the nation’s first Cree language sports broadcast aired on March 24 on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

https://j-source.ca/article/inside-aptns-history-making-cree-nhl-broadcast/

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