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‘Twitchy, toxic and divisive’: Facebook’s Instagram problem implodes

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‘Twitchy, toxic and divisive’: Facebook’s Instagram problem implodes

“Twitch”, “toxic”, “split”. Facebook’s Instagram problem is imploding. Facebook bought the photo-sharing app for $1 billion in 2012, and on Tuesday, a whistleblower debunked how Facebook designed toxic connections that push teens on Instagram to the edge.

The damn revelation was drawn from the 200-odd minutes of live testimony in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. Recently leaked internal Facebook documents show that 13% of British users and 6% of American users trace their suicide wishes to Instagram. After the first confrontation with Facebook’s head of global security, US lawmakers turned to the whistleblower, Frances Haugen, a former employee of the social networking giant.

According to Haugen, Facebook is focused on getting young users hooked on Instagram as early as possible so that they will not go to TikTok or Snapchat in the end. “They understand the value of young users to Facebook’s long-term success,” she said on Tuesday. When Haugen testified before the Senate Business Consumer Protection Subcommittee, he proposed a wide range of new regulations to control Facebook and other platforms that rely on customer data to stimulate its growth engine. The most exciting moment was when Haugen talked about harm to teenagers (mostly girls) on Instagram.

Haugen said Facebook knows that children in their most vulnerable moments will be harmed by its system. She said that Facebook has discovered that around the age of 14, just before high school, children are most likely to fall into Instagram’s emotional roller coaster. Here are some important excerpts from Haugen’s testimony on Tuesday, especially related to young people on the platform: Problematic use: “I think any research on Facebook’s problematic use, the addictiveness of the product is crucial, and any research on Facebook’s lack of knowledge about the platform for parents Facebook expressed the view that today’s parents are not aware of the danger through Instagram Because they have not experienced these experiences themselves, they cannot guide their children in terms of basic safety.”

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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