Emergency room doctors in Virginia are reporting ERs filled with children waiting for an open bed at psychiatric hospitals. Pediatricians are hearing kids as young as 10 talk about having
Psychiatrist Tami Benton was recently called to the emergency department about a child whose family had concerns about the girl’s suicidal threats to run into traffic and end her life.
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Today’s world is being made smaller by technology. New age problems are being born. No doubt technology has a lot of benefits; however, it also comes with a negative side. It has given birth to cyberbullying. To put it simply, cyberbullying refers to the misuse of information technology with the intention to harass others. Subsequently, cyberbullying comes in various forms. It includes masquerading (creating a fake identity to bully someone), harassment (threatening, annoying, embarrassing someone), outing (revealing personal/sensitive information of someone), anonymity (someone hides their identity to take advantage of another), and flaming (using profanity to insult someone). As everyone is caught up on the social network, it makes it very easy for anyone to misuse this access and take advantage of others in any way.
President Biden joking about running over a reporter and more round out today s top media headlines.
Facebook s fact-checking procedures are heavily flawed and spread misinformation themselves, the Manhattan Institute s John Tierney wrote on Monday after the social media giant flagged his article arguing mask-wearing harms children.
Facebook’s independent fact-checkers flagged Tierney s April article in the conservative think tank s City Journal about the risks of kids wearing masks, posting a disclaimer it was mostly false. In the piece, Tierney argued masks were ineffective and even harmful for children by hurting their ability to develop linguistic skills and causing psychological damage, among other side effects.