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Florence opens Italy’s first centre for digital addiction.

“Discover”, Italy’s first specialist centre to tackle risks linked to the misuse of digital technologies, is to open in Florence.

The initiative is Italy’s first attempt to tackle the phenomenon of addiction to the digital world, which mainly affects young people and has social and cultural repercussions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260723-florence-opens-italys-first-centre-for-digital-addiction?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SocialMedia #Italy #Tech #Addiction #DigitalAddiction

Florence opens Italy’s first centre for digital addiction.

“Discover”, Italy’s first specialist centre to tackle risks linked to the misuse of digital technologies, is to open in Florence.

The initiative is Italy’s first attempt to tackle the phenomenon of addiction to the digital world, which mainly affects young people and has social and cultural repercussions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260723-florence-opens-italys-first-centre-for-digital-addiction?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SocialMedia #Italy #Tech #Addiction #DigitalAddiction

Florence opens Italy’s first centre for digital addiction.

“Discover”, Italy’s first specialist centre to tackle risks linked to the misuse of digital technologies, is to open in Florence.

The initiative is Italy’s first attempt to tackle the phenomenon of addiction to the digital world, which mainly affects young people and has social and cultural repercussions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260723-florence-opens-italys-first-centre-for-digital-addiction?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SocialMedia #Italy #Tech #Addiction #DigitalAddiction

Florence opens Italy’s first centre for digital addiction.

“Discover”, Italy’s first specialist centre to tackle risks linked to the misuse of digital technologies, is to open in Florence.

The initiative is Italy’s first attempt to tackle the phenomenon of addiction to the digital world, which mainly affects young people and has social and cultural repercussions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260723-florence-opens-italys-first-centre-for-digital-addiction?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SocialMedia #Italy #Tech #Addiction #DigitalAddiction

Florence opens Italy’s first centre for digital addiction.

“Discover”, Italy’s first specialist centre to tackle risks linked to the misuse of digital technologies, is to open in Florence.

The initiative is Italy’s first attempt to tackle the phenomenon of addiction to the digital world, which mainly affects young people and has social and cultural repercussions.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260723-florence-opens-italys-first-centre-for-digital-addiction?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SocialMedia #Italy #Tech #Addiction #DigitalAddiction

https://www.europesays.com/ie/600400/ How infinite scrolling hijacks the brain’s reward system like slot machines do #BeBright #BrainHealth #CygnetHospitalHarrow #DigitalAddiction #doomscrolling #Dopamine #Éire #ForensicPsychologist #IE #InfiniteScrolling #Instagram #Ireland #MatteoParissi #NeurophysiologicalPsychologist #Phones #PrefrontalCortex #SarahWarley #SocialMedia #SocialMediaAddiction #Technology #Teens #UK

Associated Press: YouTube joins Meta in appealing a jury verdict that faulted them for users’ social media addiction. “YouTube has appealed the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles, seeking to challenge the jury’s determination that the company designed its platform to hook young users without concern for their well-being.”

Associated Press: YouTube joins Meta in appealing a jury verdict that faulted them for users’ social media addiction. “YouTube has appealed the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles, seeking to challenge the jury’s determination that the company designed its platform to hook young users without concern for their well-being.”

Associated Press: YouTube joins Meta in appealing a jury verdict that faulted them for users’ social media addiction. “YouTube has appealed the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles, seeking to challenge the jury’s determination that the company designed its platform to hook young users without concern for their well-being.”

Associated Press: YouTube joins Meta in appealing a jury verdict that faulted them for users’ social media addiction. “YouTube has appealed the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles, seeking to challenge the jury’s determination that the company designed its platform to hook young users without concern for their well-being.”

Associated Press: YouTube joins Meta in appealing a jury verdict that faulted them for users’ social media addiction. “YouTube has appealed the verdict of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit in Los Angeles, seeking to challenge the jury’s determination that the company designed its platform to hook young users without concern for their well-being.”

Gizmodo: Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case. “K.G.M., the profile says, was a working class child of a fairly recent divorce when she started using YouTube, and was obsessed with her older sister who was careening toward an eating disorder. She was struggling in school. It’s familiar, and so is the idea of coping with heavy use of YouTube.”

Gizmodo: Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case. “K.G.M., the profile says, was a working class child of a fairly recent divorce when she started using YouTube, and was obsessed with her older sister who was careening toward an eating disorder. She was struggling in school. It’s familiar, and so is the idea of coping with heavy use of YouTube.”

Gizmodo: Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case. “K.G.M., the profile says, was a working class child of a fairly recent divorce when she started using YouTube, and was obsessed with her older sister who was careening toward an eating disorder. She was struggling in school. It’s familiar, and so is the idea of coping with heavy use of YouTube.”

Gizmodo: Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case. “K.G.M., the profile says, was a working class child of a fairly recent divorce when she started using YouTube, and was obsessed with her older sister who was careening toward an eating disorder. She was struggling in school. It’s familiar, and so is the idea of coping with heavy use of YouTube.”

Gizmodo: Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case. “K.G.M., the profile says, was a working class child of a fairly recent divorce when she started using YouTube, and was obsessed with her older sister who was careening toward an eating disorder. She was struggling in school. It’s familiar, and so is the idea of coping with heavy use of YouTube.”

New York Times: ‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School. This link goes to a gift article. “Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay […]

New York Times: ‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School. This link goes to a gift article. “Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay […]

New York Times: ‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School. This link goes to a gift article. “Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay […]

New York Times: ‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School. This link goes to a gift article. “Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay […]

New York Times: ‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School. This link goes to a gift article. “Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay […]

Fact Check Friday: Are we actually addicted to our phones, or just bored? | Health News

 
The moment there is silence, many…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #attentionspan #boredomandsmartphones #CA #Canada #Digitaladdiction #doomscrolling #dopamineandphones #endlessscrolling #excessivephoneuse #FactCheckFriday #Health #mentalhealthandphones #MentalHealth #phoneaddiction #screentime #short-formcontent #smartphoneaddiction #smartphonehabits #smartphoneoveruse
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/702604/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/992864/ Fact Check Friday: Are we actually addicted to our phones, or just bored? | Health News #AttentionSpan #BoredomAndSmartphones #DigitalAddiction #doomscrolling #DopamineAndPhones #EndlessScrolling #ExcessivePhoneUse #FactCheckFriday #Health #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAndPhones #PhoneAddiction #ScreenTime #ShortFormContent #SmartphoneAddiction #SmartphoneHabits #SmartphoneOveruse #UK #UnitedKingdom

Fact Check Friday: Are we actually addicted to our phones, or just bored? | Health News

 
The moment there is silence, m…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #attentionspan #AU #Australia #boredomandsmartphones #Digitaladdiction #doomscrolling #dopamineandphones #endlessscrolling #excessivephoneuse #FactCheckFriday #Health #mentalhealthandphones #MentalHealth #phoneaddiction #screentime #short-formcontent #smartphoneaddiction #smartphonehabits #smartphoneoveruse
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/702612/

Fact Check Friday: Are we actually addicted to our phones, or just bored? | Health News

 
The moment there is silence, m…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #attentionspan #AU #Australia #boredomandsmartphones #Digitaladdiction #doomscrolling #dopamineandphones #endlessscrolling #excessivephoneuse #FactCheckFriday #Health #mentalhealthandphones #MentalHealth #phoneaddiction #screentime #short-formcontent #smartphoneaddiction #smartphonehabits #smartphoneoveruse
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/702612/

CNBC: EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media. “The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target ‘addictive design’ features on TikTok and Instagram as governments worldwide look to protect children from the harms of social media.”

CNBC: EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media. “The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target ‘addictive design’ features on TikTok and Instagram as governments worldwide look to protect children from the harms of social media.”

CNBC: EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media. “The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target ‘addictive design’ features on TikTok and Instagram as governments worldwide look to protect children from the harms of social media.”

CNBC: EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media. “The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target ‘addictive design’ features on TikTok and Instagram as governments worldwide look to protect children from the harms of social media.”

CNBC: EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media. “The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target ‘addictive design’ features on TikTok and Instagram as governments worldwide look to protect children from the harms of social media.”

🚫🔒 Oh no! The EU is here to save the kids from the big bad social media wolves, but it looks like we need a secret handshake just to read about it! 🙄🔍 Maybe the real addictive design is the thrill of trying to access forbidden content. 😂🛑
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html #EUregulations #socialmedia #accessforbidden #digitaladdiction #kidsafety #HackerNews #ngated

🚫🔒 Oh no! The EU is here to save the kids from the big bad social media wolves, but it looks like we need a secret handshake just to read about it! 🙄🔍 Maybe the real addictive design is the thrill of trying to access forbidden content. 😂🛑
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html #EUregulations #socialmedia #accessforbidden #digitaladdiction #kidsafety #HackerNews #ngated

🚫🔒 Oh no! The EU is here to save the kids from the big bad social media wolves, but it looks like we need a secret handshake just to read about it! 🙄🔍 Maybe the real addictive design is the thrill of trying to access forbidden content. 😂🛑
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html #EUregulations #socialmedia #accessforbidden #digitaladdiction #kidsafety #HackerNews #ngated

🚫🔒 Oh no! The EU is here to save the kids from the big bad social media wolves, but it looks like we need a secret handshake just to read about it! 🙄🔍 Maybe the real addictive design is the thrill of trying to access forbidden content. 😂🛑
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html #EUregulations #socialmedia #accessforbidden #digitaladdiction #kidsafety #HackerNews #ngated

🚫🔒 Oh no! The EU is here to save the kids from the big bad social media wolves, but it looks like we need a secret handshake just to read about it! 🙄🔍 Maybe the real addictive design is the thrill of trying to access forbidden content. 😂🛑
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html #EUregulations #socialmedia #accessforbidden #digitaladdiction #kidsafety #HackerNews #ngated

PsyPost: Problematic social media use is linked to how feelings of freedom relate to mental health. ” The findings indicate that while feeling free generally supports better psychological well-being, unhealthy attachments to social media tend to weaken the benefits of personal freedom but strengthen the positive effects of national pride.”

PsyPost: Problematic social media use is linked to how feelings of freedom relate to mental health. ” The findings indicate that while feeling free generally supports better psychological well-being, unhealthy attachments to social media tend to weaken the benefits of personal freedom but strengthen the positive effects of national pride.”

PsyPost: Problematic social media use is linked to how feelings of freedom relate to mental health. ” The findings indicate that while feeling free generally supports better psychological well-being, unhealthy attachments to social media tend to weaken the benefits of personal freedom but strengthen the positive effects of national pride.”

PsyPost: Problematic social media use is linked to how feelings of freedom relate to mental health. ” The findings indicate that while feeling free generally supports better psychological well-being, unhealthy attachments to social media tend to weaken the benefits of personal freedom but strengthen the positive effects of national pride.”

PsyPost: Problematic social media use is linked to how feelings of freedom relate to mental health. ” The findings indicate that while feeling free generally supports better psychological well-being, unhealthy attachments to social media tend to weaken the benefits of personal freedom but strengthen the positive effects of national pride.”

Reuters: Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms. “The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from ‌a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accusing the social media giant of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect ‌children from sexual exploitation on its platforms.”

Reuters: Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms. “The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from ‌a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accusing the social media giant of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect ‌children from sexual exploitation on its platforms.”

Reuters: Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms. “The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from ‌a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accusing the social media giant of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect ‌children from sexual exploitation on its platforms.”

Reuters: Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms. “The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from ‌a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accusing the social media giant of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect ‌children from sexual exploitation on its platforms.”

Reuters: Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force changes to Facebook, other platforms. “The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems from ‌a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accusing the social media giant of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect ‌children from sexual exploitation on its platforms.”

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design. “AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI […]

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design. “AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI […]

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design. “AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI […]

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design. “AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI […]

University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design. “AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this genie-like quality is fuelling AI […]