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Social media was supposed to bring us together. Global communities. Shared creativity. A space to belong. And it did, until it didn’t. At a recent Dartmouth and United Nations symposium , six former U.S. Surgeons General, Vivek Murthy, Jerome Adams, Antonia Coello Novello, Joycelyn Elders, Richard Carmona, and David Satcher, delivered a unanimous message: Social media isn’t just shaping the minds of young people. It’s shaping their health. A Generation in Distress “When one i

Artificial intelligence was supposed to make learning easier. Faster essays. Smarter tutoring. A tool to level the playing field for students everywhere. And it has, in ways no one could have predicted. A new report from the Center for Democracy & Technology  reveals that 86% of students  have used AI chatbots like ChatGPT in the past school year. Half of them used it for schoolwork. But here’s the surprising part: Almost one in five  say they or a friend has used an AI chatb

For years, social media promised us endless connection. Billions of users. Instant communication. Communities at our fingertips. Yet somehow, people feel lonelier than ever. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, loneliness is now a national epidemic, one that harms both our mental and physical health. Nearly half of American adults report feeling lonely, and young adults are the most affected. It’s a strange paradox: we’re the most connected generation in history, but also t

A photo of a young girl, her sick puppy, and a kind police officer went viral this week. A heartwarming moment that seemed to remind us what the internet used  to be about: connection, empathy, stories that make you smile. Except… it wasn’t real. People quickly noticed something off: the car’s steering wheel was on the wrong side, there was no dashboard, and no record of the story anywhere online. It was another piece of AI-generated “slop,” a fake image designed purely to g