adolescents, eating disorders, media, social media
Over the years, the ideal body shape has seen drastic changes. Unfortunately, this has led to an increase in eating disorders in adolescents. Female fashion models have gone from being curvy, with an “hourglass” shape to being underweight or even androgynous while the ideal for males has become taller and increasingly muscular. When you consider ...
A list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fakery would be endless, but one of the latest examples is the apparent use of a fake French journalist attacking Uyghur genocide reports. In an article published by the regime’s propaganda broadcaster CGTN, a so-called French journalist identified as “Laurene Beaumond” attacked international concerns that genocide is being ...
The New York Times has been called upon to report honestly and fairly on the Falun Gong spiritual practice after it published a controversial report about the Epoch Times media. The call was made by the Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC), which said The New York Times had spread falsehoods about Falun Gong in an ...
Days after the People’s Republic of China expelled three journalists for a “racist” op-ed headline run by The Wall Street Journal, The Trump administration announced that it would limit the number of Chinese staff working in the United States for Chinese state-owned media outlets. The restrictions were effective from March 13 and applied to four PRC ...
A small percentage of Americans, less than 9 percent, shared links to so-called “fake news” sites on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election campaign, but this behavior was disproportionately common among people over the age of 65, finds a new analysis by researchers at New York University’s Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab and ...
Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, released the full text of a proposal by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to remove the clause stating that the President and Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms” from the country’s Constitution. The release of the ...