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YouTube’s looking to help connect more users to mental health assistance by expanding the presence of its crisis resource panels, which provide contact info on mental health providers, within the app. As explained by YouTube: “Previously, our crisis resource panels only appeared in search results. We’re now expanding them to show on the Watch Page as well,...

Among the various issues and concerns highlighted by the recent ‘Facebook Files’ internal data leak was the suggestion that content sharing on Facebook is actually one of the most harmful actions, as the ease of amplifying questionable content by simply tapping ‘Share’ significantly increases the amount of people doing exactly that. Indeed, one of the most...

As it looks to increase its efforts to combat the spread of climate change misinformation on its platforms, Facebook has also conducted a new study, in conjunction with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, to get a better sense of people’s attitudes towards climate change by region, and how concerned and knowledgeable they are about its impacts. The study,...