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The independent researchers were studying political advertising on Facebook. Their research has produced several key discoveries including highlighting a lack of transparency in how advertisers target political ads online on Facebook.
"The result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threats and more combat. In some cases, this dangerous online talk has led to actual
violence that harms and even kills people," Haugen testified.
Other legislative responses could include passing a national privacy law and strengthening safeguards for children online, two measures that have been long-debated among Washington lawmakers. But lawmakers insist Haugen's disclosures are the motivation needed on Capitol Hill.
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Recently, however, some researchers have associated online social networking with several psychiatric disorders, including depressive symptoms, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Since social networks are a relatively new phenomenon, many questions regarding their potential impact on mental health remain unanswered. On the other hand, due to the popularity of these online services in the general population, any future confirmed connection between them and psychiatric diseases would pose a serious public health concern.
In 1998, Kraut et al. published one of the first studies to indicate that Internet use in general significantly affects social relationships and participation in community life.1 In this research, the authors found that increased time spent online is related to a decline in communication with family members, as well as the reduction of the Internet user's social circle, which may further lead to increased feelings of depression and loneliness. This work was later followed by several other publications where it was suggested that computer use may have negative effects on children's social development.2
At the time when these studies were conducted, most of today's social networks did not exist. For example, Facebook was founded in 2004, and became popular among children and adolescents a few years later. Instead, most works were focused on the investigation of possible effects of Internet browsing, e-mail checking, and other online and offline behaviors (i.e., violent video games) on mental health.
Many studies simply do not test various potential confounding factors that may influence conventional correlation in terms of enhancing or reducing it. For example, it may well be possible that people with some personality disorders (which are quite frequent and often undiagnosed) spend much more time on online social networks compared to the general population because computer-mediated communication enables them to be socially more successful. These individuals, if included in a research study, will probably influence the results of self-esteem, depression, addiction, and other questionnaires. In other words, any future study on this topic, in order to meet quality standards, will need to have established precise inclusion and exclusion criteria in order to make the study sample as homogenous as possible. These criteria are often difficult to define and even more difficult to implement, so the other possible approach would be to use a large study sample. This would also have to be combined with additional statistical tests such as multivariate regression analysis.
It is also important to note that such issues also extend to the numerous other social networking platforms, including those such as Twitter. These sites will continue to rapidly grow, and as our patient population becomes more adept at using them to communicate, physicians will surely be asked to maintain a more prominent online presence.
It should be noted that some physicians who are already active online have a difficult time understanding that professionalism extends to the digital world (Chretien et al. JAMA 2011;305: 566-8.). As a profession, part of our obligation as members is to hold ourselves to the standards demanded by the public.
SF Chronicle: Facebook members, for instance, will be able to write Amazon book reviews and post them on their Facebook pages. If their friends read the review and want to buy the book, they can click on an Amazon button and connect directly to the online store.
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told British lawmakers that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to fix the problems, providing strong momentum for efforts by European governments working on stricter regulation of tech giants. While her testimony echoed much of what she told the U.S. Senate earlier this month, her appearance drew intense interest from a British parliamentary committee that is much further along in drawing up legislation to crack down on social platforms. (CTV News)
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