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A pair of Southern California parents are mourning their 13-year-old son, who they believe died after participating in a dangerous social media challenge similar to one that took several lives ...
The viral social media trend known as the "blackout challenge" (also called the "choking challenge") can lead to permanent brain damage or death in under five minutes. Here's what to know.
That tragedy followed the news of the deaths of a 13-year-old Australian girl in 2023 and two 16-year-old boys in 2019. There have also been reports of hospitalizations and brain damage ...
The In The Know video above discusses more dangerous social media trends — but be warned, there are some visuals that might be disturbing for some viewers. Show comments Advertisement
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Debate over the impact of fake news in the November 2016 United States presidential election, and whether or not it significantly impacted the election of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom the most shared fake stories favored, [27] [28] led researchers from Stanford to study the impact of fake news shared on social media, where 62% of ...
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, [1] [2] and as of 2020, the second leading cause of death in the United States for those aged 15–34. [3] [4] According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide was the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the US, from 1999 to 2006.
Teenage dares may be a rite of passage, but thanks to the near-universal use of social media they have spread like wildfire. These so-called challenges fill up users' feeds with videos that show ...