Education Minister Erica Stanford shares a personal account of a girl who learned self-harm from TikTok, urging a ban on social media for under-16s to protect youth mental health and calling for stronger regulation of online content.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 5 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
evidence-based concern about youth wellbeing
Kids on social media more than two hours a day at higher risk of mental illnessshift toward neurodivergent conditions
We analysed 14 million Reddit posts to reveal a striking shift in how we talk about mental healthSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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