Social Media

"The post-Babel situation is, according to Haidt, a disaster and the 'best metaphor he has encountered' for 'the fractured country we now inhabit.' Haidt imagines the post-Babel world to be one in which people wandered amid the ruins of the destroyed city 'unable to communicate, condemned to mutual incomprehension.'" - Law & Liberty

"Twitter announced on Monday afternoon that it accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company.... Twitter Board members unanimously accepted the deal." - N. Review

SBC's "North American Mission Board (NAMB) and Send Network partnered with Dan Darling, author of A Way with Words, to create a free web course at NewChurches.com called “Using Online Conversations for Good” - BPnews

"TikTok is now the world’s most downloaded app and the world's #1 most visited website, ahead of Google (#2) and Facebook (#3). Every day, more than one billion different videos are viewed on TikTok. Experts agree that the key to its success is its unique algorithm." - IFS

"...social media enables the same voices that (rightly) celebrate the downfall of corrupt institutions to wield significantly more power with even less accountability than their institutional predecessors." - TGC

"Wendland observes that the conversations spread through Twitter are most times cut off from the context that allows participants to verify the claims, but no one cares; its connection and movement through the 'tribe' gives it communal authority." - C.Post

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"The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or Coppa, was passed in 1998 for an internet that is now a distant memory. ...It’s time to update Coppa to make it easier for parents to guide their children’s tech use and protect them from harmful content and communications." - IFS