Under the moniker Shuniiadaballer, Shuniaa Wrenn of Clarksdale, Miss., has garnered millions of views on her freestyle-rap videos and will soon debut an album.
Teens, parents and mental-health professionals from across Mississippi gathered at the Teen Suicide Summit to discuss topics like suicide prevention, signs of mental illness, safe spaces for youth and the potential harms of teens using social media.
“Systematic desensitization involves routine exposure to emotional stimuli, such as fear or excitement,” Hart Jefferson writes. “Over time, the responses to these stimuli will become weaker as the brain adapts.”
“In Musk’s quest to create what he says will become an app that ‘does everything,’ I believe that his X rebrand took Twitter one more step toward being good for hardly anything,” Matthew Pittman writes.
Gov. Tate Reeves suggested that the “Chinese Communist Party” may use TikTok to steal the state’s government data, a choice of words that raised writer Emily Suh’s suspicions around the motives behind Mississippi’s TikTok ban.
Mississippi will ban TikTok, a popular social media platform that the private Chinese company ByteDance owns, on state-issued devices and state Wi-Fi networks starting July 1.
“I don’t believe these schools are overreacting. TikTok captures user data in a way that is more aggressive than other apps,” Kshetri writes.
“I suspect Elon Musk’s desire in buying Twitter goes beyond a desire to control and shape public discourse, ” Media scholar Nolan Higdon writes. “Today’s equivalent of the Gilded Age oligarchs—the handful of super-rich Americans gobbling up increasing chunks of the media landscape—will have that, but they will also have access to a trove of personal data of users and news consumers.”
Being sick took a financial toll on me due to the amount of time I was out from work during quarantine. However, the time away from the daily rat race also gave me the opportunity to think and reflect on my goals in life, which got me back on track with the future I envisioned for myself and my family. I found renewed motivation for all of my endeavors, and now new opportunities await.
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