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A Wall Street Journal investigation recently uncovered internal research showing Instagram is harmful to the mental health of roughly a third of teen girls, with Black girls impacted most severely. This is a grave threat to the health of our youth and Congress and the Biden administration must aggressively pursue a regulatory and research agenda to address it. The lack of action to date may be because policymakers believed there was still some ambiguity in the research — ambiguity caused in part by the refusal of social media giants to open their data to outside researchers. Though some amount of ambiguity exists for almost any major health threat, social media companies use their lack of transparency to claim ignorance, as Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Alibaba - House Democrats plagued by Biden agenda troubles Webb: Big Tech won't change; the tech sector can Hillicon Valley — Presented by Xerox — Democrats …

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Two people were arrested on Saturday for allegedly posting a video on social media containing abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, police said. The video was posted on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp and showed two people using abusive words against the BJP leaders, the police said. Police said a case in this connection was registered Friday against Prakash Verma and Ramesh Yadav of Sher (Badki Seria) village on the complaint of Mantu Ram, the in-charge of Bansdih Road police station. Mr. Verma and Mr. Yadav had allegedly posted the video on these sites on September 23, they said. …

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A 30-year-old police constable was allegedly gang-raped by three men, who shot a video of the act and blackmailed her in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district, an official said on Saturday. While the crime took place earlier this month, the constable lodged a complaint on September 13, following which a probe was conducted. A case was registered this week against five persons. The police have arrested the main accused and his mother in connection with the crime, said Anuradha Girwal, who is in charge of the women’s police station. “The accused had befriended the constable on Facebook and had been interacting with her on WhatsApp since April. He invited her to his younger brother’s birthday party, where she was raped by three men,” Ms. Girwal said. The complainant has alleged that she was raped by the main accused, his brother and another man at the party, the official said, adding that the accused also allegedly shot a video of the act. The constable has said that the main …

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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., erupted at a Capitol riot defendant on Friday after the individual pleaded guilty to a single charge in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton made the comment to defendant Anthony Mariotto of Florida during a plea hearing, CNN reported . According to court records , Mariotto pleaded guilty to a single charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol building. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 17. ADVERTISEMENT “You’ve disgraced this country in the eyes of the world, and my inclination is to lock you up,” Walton said, according to CNN. “To see someone destroy, or try to destroy, the Capitol is very troubling to me." Mariotto was facing five charges in connection with the riot in which supporters of former President Trump Donald Trump Julian Castro knocks Biden administration over refugee policy Overnight Energy & Environment — League of Conservation Voters — Climate …

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An Elon University professor has devised a “secret weapon” to fight “far-right extremists” on behalf of Antifa — she’s made software to keep tabs on 400,000 Facebook accounts whom she suspects to be members of the alt-right. And she’s using that program to dox anyone she deems a “far-right extremist.” A new Wired Magazine article, published on Tuesday, highlights the work of Megan Squire, a 45-year-old professor of computer science at Elon University, whose program feeds data to the hyper-partisan organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — as well as a “left-wing activist who she knew might take more radical action.” The magazine reports that the SPLC’s analysts then use the information she gives them to “provide information to police or to reveal white supremacists to their employers, seeking to get them fired.” The SPLC’s penchant for recklessly referring to organizations as “hate groups” previously resulted in a domestic terror attack on the Family Research Council …

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The family of Gabby Petito announced that a public memorial visitation will be held Sunday at a Long Island, New York, funeral home. The service will be held from noon to 5 p.m. at the Moloney Funeral Home in Holbrook, her father, Joseph Petito, said on social media. "Thank you all for showing your support for #GabbyPetito," he said in a Facebook post late Friday. "It is humbling to see all of the communities around the country and the world supporting her." Gabby Petito, 22, went missing in August after embarking on a cross-country road trip with her fiance, Brian Laundrie. The two began their trip in July and documented their travels on YouTube and Instagram using the hashtag #VanLife. Petito's mother has said she last talked with her daughter via FaceTime around Aug. 24 when the couple left Salt Lake City for Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Laundrie returned home to North Port, Florida in their van on Sept. 1 but without Petito. About 10 days later Petito's …

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A Virginia university suspended a local fraternity Sunday after a 19-year-old pledge was found dead over the weekend, school officials and relatives said. The announcement from Virginia Commonwealth University came one day after Delta Chi’s national office suspended its Richmond chapter. The body of Adam Oakes was identified earlier Saturday at an off-campus home, the university said. “We are heartbroken at the tragic loss of one of our own,” said the school’s president, Michael Rao. In a statement, the Richmond Police Department said that authorities had been called to an address east of the university after a report of a “person down.” Officers found Oakes unresponsive and pronounced him dead at the scene. A cause and manner of death has not yet been released. In a statement, the fraternity’s national office said it was “devastated” to learn of the student’s death and encouraged members to cooperate with the investigation. The local chapter could not be reached …

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FOLKESTONE, England — Using high-powered binoculars and a telescope, three volunteers from a humanitarian monitoring group stood on the Kent coast, peering across the English Channel. The looming clock tower of the French town of Calais was visible on this clear morning, but so was the distinctive outline of a small rubber dinghy. The volunteer group, Channel Rescue, was set up last year to watch for the boats packed with asylum seekers trying to cross this busy waterway, to offer them humanitarian support — like water and foil blankets — when they land on beaches, or to spot those in distress. But they are also monitoring Britain’s border authority for any possible rights violations as the government takes an increasingly hard line on migration. For much of the year, the numbers of migrants crossing the channel in dinghies has risen, brewing a political storm in London and leading Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorize tough tactics to push boats back toward France. …

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The suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. That narrative, in the six- Historians who are not inclined to hero worship — including Elsa Barkley Brown , Lori Ginzberg and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn — have recently provided an unsparing portrait of this once-neglected period. Stripped of her halo, Stanton, the campaign’s principal philosopher, is exposed as a classic liberal racist who embraced fairness in the abstract while publicly enunciating bigoted views of African-American men, whom she characterized as “Sambos” and incipient rapists in the period just after the war. The suffrage struggle itself took on a similar flavor, acquiescing to white supremacy — and selling out the interests of African-American women — when it became politically expedient to do so. This betrayal of trust opened a rift between black and white feminists that persists to this day. This toxic legacy looms especially large as cities, including New York , prepare monuments and …

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I don’t remember exactly when I found out Carmen Schentrup was dead. Carmen and I became friends in middle school. We had science together. I got my period one day and didn’t have a pad, and Carmen gave me one — I found out she was dead on Feb. 15. I think it was the 15th — that’s when The Miami Herald released the names of those who had been killed the day before in the shooting at my high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, in Parkland, Fla. I’d thought she’d only been injured. I remember thinking that very clearly; she has only been injured, don’t worry about her. On the 16th, I was asked to speak at a gun control rally by a woman on the school board. For what seemed like the first time, adults were treating me and my peers as though they cared about what we had to say. I started writing my speech and didn’t stop until I got up to the lectern. I My friend Cameron Kasky called after I gave my speech and asked if I wanted to join the movement. He was getting a group of students …

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