Is Reddit down? Why you are seeing no healthy upstream error
The website is affected from desktop. Reddit is off to a rocky start this week. On Monday morning reported outtages started to spike on Downdetector.com, with 75 percent of people flagging an issue with Reddit’s website. Credit: Downdetector.com When Mashable attempted to access reddit.com …
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Toxic lies are surging in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force search a flood-damaged area along the Swannanoa River in Asheville, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 4, 2024. | Mario Tama/Getty Images Hurricanes Milton and Helene have absolutely devastated large swaths of the United States. But residents who are cleaning out waterlogged homes and businesses have another challenge to their recovery, one that hasn’t let up — viral disinformation. There’s the rumor that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is limiting payouts to disaster survivors to $750. False, according to a fact-checking page the agency has set up. What about the one that says FEMA is…
New York’s governor wants to “liberate” kids — by taking their phones
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul waves during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images There’s a hot new trend this back-to-school season: cellphone bans. At least eight states have enacted regulations limiting cellphone use in schools so far this year, and many more individual districts and schools have implemented similar policies on their own. The changes are driven by bipartisan concern that teenagers are unable to break away from their phones and concentrate in class, or even just talk to people in real life, as well as growing concern about the pervasive mental health…
What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong?
As a growing number of schools ban phones to protect kids online, Congress is considering the most significant internet regulations in decades. | Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Rich Johnston, a father of two school-aged children in Atlanta, thought AOL Instant Messenger was bad enough. Johnston recently told me that “away messages screwed with people’s brains,” stressed them out. The self-identified elder millennial also loves the fire hose of information that is X, formerly Twitter, and yes, he knows that’s weird. “Now we’ve got Snapchat and TikTok and Instagram, and that’s got to be worse in 10 years,” he said. “That’s the terrifying part of bringing a kid up in this environment.”…
What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong?
As a growing number of schools ban phones to protect kids online, Congress is considering the most significant internet regulations in decades. | Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Rich Johnston, a father of two school-aged children in Atlanta, thought AOL Instant Messenger was bad enough. Johnston recently told me that “away messages screwed with people’s brains,” stressed them out. The self-identified elder millennial also loves the fire hose of information that is X, formerly Twitter, and yes, he knows that’s weird. “Now we’ve got Snapchat and TikTok and Instagram, and that’s got to be worse in 10 years,” he said. “That’s the terrifying part of bringing a kid up in this environment.”…
Instagram’s Teen Accounts aren’t really for teens
Jason Citron, CEO of Discord; Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap; Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok; Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X; and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta are sworn in as they testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced Tuesday that it would begin rolling out measures that restrict what kind of content young people can access, who they can talk to, and how much time they spend on special media. The new measures will begin with an Instagram rollout that began September 17 in the US, but will eventually…