A group of about 500 teenagers raided a shopping mall in Aurora, Colorado, after the invitation of an influencer, turning the event into a situation of chaos and vandalism, raising concerns from local police. (translated)
A new stationary facility near Prague will focus on helping teenagers with anxiety and self-harm, offering innovative psychotherapeutic programs and not requiring hospitalization, while planning to support approximately two hundred young people each year. (translated)
Roma, tre agenti della polizia penitenziaria sono stati interdetti dal servizio per un anno nell'ambito dell'inchiesta sulle torture ai danni di 12 adolescenti stranieri detenuti nel carcere minorile di Casal del Marmo. Tra gli episodi contestati ci sono pestaggi con chiavi e altri oggetti, spedizioni punitive notturne, schiaffi e umiliazioni, oltre alle lesioni ai testicoli inflitte a un giovane dell'Est Europa #Giustizia #DirittiUmani #Polizia
In January 2024, the National Institute of Mental Health in Klecany near Prague will open a facility for adolescents that will provide free therapeutic care aimed at combating depression, anxiety, and self-harm, using modern methods that will also allow for continued school attendance. (translated)
A couple, Thomasina and Patrick Tobin, tragically died while she was trying to save her husband who was trapped in the hot tub of a holiday villa in Valencia, with their two teenage children discovering the bodies. (translated)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) will open a station for adolescents in Klecany in January, which will offer free therapeutic care focused on anxiety and depressive disorders, self-harm, and other psychological difficulties through modern treatment programs. (translated)
Meta has accepted an 18 billion dollar agreement to modify its social platforms, aiming to make them healthier for teenagers, but many experts warn that more significant changes are needed and that the negative impact on mental health requires a restructuring of the advertising and data collection-based business model. (translated)
Massimo Ammaniti, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, discusses the importance of an approach that goes beyond the automatic prescription of drugs for depression, emphasizing the building of a relationship with the patient and the value of the first five years of life, while also reflecting on his experience with children and adolescents in the asylum and the desire to be a grandfather. (translated)
Meta ha accettato di pagare fino a 16,68 miliardi di dollari per chiudere le cause intentate da 29 Stati Usa, che accusavano Facebook e Instagram di favorire la dipendenza tra i minori, ingannare sulla sicurezza e raccogliere illegalmente i loro dati personali. L’accordo prevede anche limiti di utilizzo giornalieri e blocchi notturni per gli adolescenti. Meta nega ogni illecito #Meta #Privacy #Minori
Meta has agreed to pay $16.7 billion after being accused of designing social media to create addiction in minors, in a settlement with the attorneys general of 29 U.S. states, without admitting guilt but committing to implement safety measures for teenagers. (translated)
Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle a major lawsuit in which it was accused of designing Instagram and Facebook to promote addiction and violate the privacy of minor users, with payments distributed over ten years and without admission of guilt, while the company commits to introducing new limits on the use of its apps by teenagers. (translated)
Historic decision in the United States. Meta will pay up to 17 billion dollars in fines and will implement radical changes to its products, limiting for example the usage time for adolescents. (translated)
Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, a new platform for artificial intelligence made up of autonomous AI agents, expected between the end of August and the beginning of September, in the context of accusations regarding its potential to encourage dependency among children and adolescents on its social media. (translated)
Alberto Pellai, a psychotherapist from the State University of Milan, warns of the dangers related to technology addiction among adolescents, describing how excessive use of mobile phones and video games can generate violent reactions in young people, including violence towards parents, when faced with a sudden interruption of their access to digital media. (translated)
OpenAI has launched ChatGpt for Teens, a version of the chatbot aimed at teenagers aged 13 to 17, which includes restrictions on sensitive content but without strict age verification, instead relying on user behavior to identify minors, while trying to promote healthy use of artificial intelligence in response to concerns about emotional dependency among young people. (translated)
The lawsuit filed against Meta in California, which involves 29 states and accusations of encouraging addictive behavior among adolescents, could lead to huge penalties and radical changes to the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram, with financial risks of up to 200 billion dollars for the company. (translated)
The phenomenon of radicalism among adolescents, fueled by secret digital networks, leads to an increase in incidents of violent extremism, with young people holding supremacist material and planning acts of violence, often manipulated by online communities. (translated)
Meta Platforms is facing a crucial lawsuit in California, backed by 29 attorneys general, accusing the company of creating Facebook and Instagram to generate addiction among children and teenagers, with potential damages of up to $1.4 trillion, which could lead to significant changes in the way these platforms operate. (translated)
An artificial intelligence developed at Shenzhen University is able to predict the risk of depression up to four years before the onset of the disease by analyzing the brain reactions of adolescents to faces with different emotional expressions, as revealed by a study published in the journal Science Advances. (translated)
Five teenagers died and four other people were seriously injured in an accident on the M9 motorway in Ireland, after a vehicle veered into oncoming traffic, with police confirming that the incident was tragic and highlighted the risky behaviors of some drivers who drive in the wrong direction for social media likes. (translated)
