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With AI, anyone can be a victim of nonconsensual porn. Can laws keep up?
States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and easy-to-use apps.
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What happens when nurses are hired like Ubers
“You basically just hope that nothing goes wrong,” a nurse said about a shift with the app Clipboard.
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The complicated ties between teenage girls and social media — and what parents should know
Experts say the relationship between social media, self comparison, body image and self harm means that there’s no singular culprit in the youth mental health crisis.
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Young Americans who identify with gun culture are more likely to believe in male supremacy, research shows
A first-of-its-kind study surveyed over 4000 14- to 30-year old Americans and highlights the role that social media is playing in misogyny — and the U.S. gun violence epidemic.
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Few marine scientists are Black. A Spelman College-OceanX effort aims to change that.
A collaboration between the historically Black women’s college and an exploration nonprofit will allow students to spend weeks at sea with experts of color on the research ship OceanXplorer.
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‘We all we got’: How Black people online steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson’s death
Black social media has often taken the lead in raising public consciousness when mainstream outlets overlook the death or disappearance of Black women.
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105 years to make a bra: How women’s military uniforms are evolving
In the last decade, there has been a wave of changes to women service members’ uniforms — which many experts and historians agree reflects broader efforts to improve gender equity in the military.
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The hand gesture that saved a teenager shows how TikTok can help victims escape
The gesture was created by the Canadian Women’s Foundation in April 2020 as the pandemic left many isolated in their homes.
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Netflix employees and their allies walk out over company's handling of anti-trans Chappelle special
Workers walked off the job at 10:30 a.m. and were joined by LGBTQ+ protesters and allies in front of the building.
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On TikTok, misogyny and white supremacy slip through ‘enforcement gap’
A new report shows how extremists use profiles, hashtags and other effects that violate the platform’s community guidelines.