‘My heart goes out to all the Nepalese families who are grieving loved ones,’ Cara Severino says. Follow latest updates live
Plibersek blames social media ‘deliberate decision’ for misogyny in feeds
Tanya Plibersek has accused social media companies of deliberately pushing violent misogynistic content to young boys.
If you set up a social media account as a young boy in Australia today, it takes an average of 23 minutes for you to be fed misogynistic, violent misogynistic content online. That is a deliberate decision of the social media companies, that is wrecking our young boys, giving them all of the wrong ideas about what healthy relationships look like. …
It is no coincidence that 60% of young people now report that they’ve experienced strangulation during a sexual encounter.
We’ve seen from the big tech companies in the past is they technically comply with what they’re required to do, uh, legally, but they make the app so unpleasant or unwieldy to use, that people default back to the old version.
I’m so grateful for the crew we formed on that first day when we entered the national park on the tractor. Sudha, Lucas, Samir and Saugat. It’s thanks to these amazing people I got out safely.
My heart goes out to all the Nepalese families who are grieving loved ones. We passed a guy hiking up to Thulu Safru who lost his whole family when their whole town was destroyed. It’s just so devastating and undeserving.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Luca Ittimani.
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