(VOR News) – The TikTok investigation that was carried out by National Public Radio and Kentucky Public Radio revealed that administrators at TikTok are aware of the possible harm that the app could do to teens.

This was uncovered as a consequence of an inquiry. This particular information was obtained from court documents that were used as the source.

The reporting component of the project was also carried out by a variety of public radio stations, such as National Public Radio and Kentucky Public Radio, among others.

A lawsuit was filed against the social media network TikTok by fourteen attorneys general from the United States of America just the week before last.

The complaint identified TikTok as the defendant.

There is a lawsuit that has been filed, in which it is said that the application is harmful to the mental health of children and that it ought to be removed from the market to the greatest extent feasible as soon as possible.

It was possible for reporters to obtain some of the information that was contained in those instances by copying and pasting the text that was contained in those circumstances. In spite of the fact that a substantial percentage of the information that was supplied in such circumstances was concealed, this was the situation that occurred.

In the complaint that was submitted by Kentucky, it was stated that the private study that was carried out by the corporation reveals that “compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects such as loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, TikTok conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety.”

This is the conclusion that can be drawn from the findings of the inquiry that was conducted by the company. According to the complaint that was filed by the state of Kentucky, this particular piece of information is included in the document.

The complaint that was submitted by a person from the state of Kentucky includes a specific statement that is similar to the one that is being discussed here.

As a further point of contention, the lawsuit says that there was a discussion that took place within the firm over a feature that provides parents with the power to limit the amount of time that their children spend using TikTok.

People claim to have discussed this trait in TikTok conversations.

This particular function is already incorporated into the bundle that you purchase, so you could say that it is already included.

According to the findings of a number of reviews that were carried out, the functionality only reduced the amount of time that was spent using it by an average of one and a half minutes each day. Rather than utilizing this tactic, the group analyzes its effectiveness based on the idea of “improving public trust in the TikTok platform via media coverage.”

This method is not utilized by the organization. The organization base its conclusion about whether or not it has been successful in accomplishing its aims on these standards, which serve as the foundation around which the organization makes its conclusion.

According to the statement that was made by a spokesperson for TikTok, who expressed remorse over the decision, it was “highly irresponsible” for National Public Radio to reveal excerpts from the complaint on their website. This comment was in line with the assertion that was made by the representative.

In addition to that, she expressed her remorse with regard to the decision that was ultimately made. According to him, the sections of the paper that are considered to be significant “cherry-pick misleading quotes and take outdated documents out of context in order to intentionally misrepresent our commitment to community safety.”

SOURCE: TC

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HONG KONG — On Tuesday, China’s economic planning body detailed steps geared at stimulating the economy, but avoided large spending projects.

The piecemeal nature of the proposals unveiled Tuesday appeared to disappoint investors who had hoped for bigger moves, and Shanghai’s index lost 10% of its initial gain as markets reopened after a weeklong holiday, trading only 3% higher.

The head of the National Development and Reform Commission announced that the government will frontload 100 billion yuan ($14.1 billion) in expenditure from the 2025 budget, in addition to another 100 billion yuan for construction projects.

China Announces More Support For Economy But Holds Back On Major Spending Package

Overall, spending was significantly lower than the multi-trillion yuan levels predicted by analysts.

Zheng Shanjie, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said China was still on track to meet its full-year economic growth objective of roughly 5%. He did, however, concede that the economy is facing challenges and that the global climate is becoming “more complex and extreme”.

China’s policymakers have struggled to accelerate growth since the COVID-19 outbreak ended. A slowdown in the property market has exacerbated the situation since consumer spending has lagged and global demand has dropped.

In a note, UBS top China economist Tao Wang stated that the market was “likely expecting a significant fiscal stimulus.”

A small package of 1.5 to 2 trillion yuan ($210 billion to $280 billion) is more reasonable to expect in the short term, she added, followed by another 2 to 3 trillion yuan ($280 billion to $420 billion) in 2025.

In September, China launched a monetary stimulus package that included reductions in mortgage rates and the amount of reserves required to be held on deposit with the central bank. Those and other measures were the most forceful efforts so far to lift the property industry out of its slump and accelerate growth.

On Tuesday, the NDRC announced additional measures aimed at increasing investment and spending, as well as assisting small and medium-sized firms that face a competitive disadvantage against major state corporations.

China Announces More Support For Economy But Holds Back On Major Spending Package

However, much of the information was focused on technical problems such as payment restrictions, project management, and the use of bonds for financing.

To combat dropping housing sales and home prices, Zheng promised “comprehensive policy measures to help stop the decline in the real estate market.”

“In response to volatility and declines in the stock market, we will introduce a series of powerful and effective measures to strive to boost the capital market,” he stated, providing no further information.

SOURCE | AP

STOCKHOLM – South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for a beautiful and frightening body of work that, according to the Nobel committee, “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Han, a slow-burning international literary sensation who has won numerous accolades in South Korea and Europe, is the first Asian woman and South Korean writer to receive the Nobel Literature Prize. She received awards for books like “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts,” which examine the anguish of being human and the wounds of Korea’s violent history.

Anna-Karin Palm, a Nobel literature committee member, stated that Han writes about “trauma, pain, and loss,” whether individual or collective, “with the same compassion and care.”

Han Kang Wins The Nobel Prize For Literature. She’s The First South Korean To Do So

“And this, I think, is something that is quite remarkable,” Mr. Palm added.

Anders Olsson, the Nobel committee chairman, complimented Han’s “empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives” of her characters.

“She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead,” according to Olsson.

Han is the second South Korean to earn the Nobel Prize. The late former President Kim Dae-Jung received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his efforts to restore democracy in South Korea under the country’s previous military administration and improve relations with war-torn adversary North Korea.

Han told the Swedish Academy over the phone that she had just finished dinner with her son at home in Seoul when she received the news.

She stated that she was both “honored” and shocked to be South Korea’s first Nobel literature laureate.

“I grew up with Korean literature, and I feel very connected to it,” said Han, whose father and brother are both novelists. “So I hope this news is nice for Korean literature readers and my friends, writers.”

She added, “I’m going to have tea with my son and I’ll celebrate it quietly tonight.”

Han receives the Nobel Prize at a time when South Korean culture is gaining global traction, as seen by the recent success of films such as director Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning “Parasite,” the Netflix survival drama “Squid Game,” and the global recognition of K-pop groups such as BTS and BLACKPINK.

Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize for fiction translated into English in 2016 for “The Vegetarian,” an unnerving novel about a woman who decides to stop eating meat, which has disastrous effects.

Accepting the honor, Han stated that creating novels “is a way of questioning for me.”

“I just try to complete my questions through the process of my writing and I try to stay in the questions, sometimes painful, sometimes — well — sometimes demanding,” she told me.

Han began publishing as a poet in 1993, followed by a short story collection in 1995 and a novel, “Black Deer,” in 1998.

“Greek Lessons” — about the interaction between a woman who can no longer speak and a teacher who is losing his sight — “Human Acts” and “The White Book,” a poetic novel based on the loss of Han’s older sister shortly after birth. “The White Book” was a nominee for the International Booker Prize in 2018.

“Human Acts,” described as “witness literature” by Nobel committee chair Olsson, is based on the real-life death of pro-democracy protestors in Han’s hometown of Gwangju in 1980. The novel earned Italy’s Malaparte Prize in 2017.

Her most recent novel, “We Do Not Part,” will be released in English next year. It also addresses a period in South Korea’s 20th-century history that saw the country go through war, the separation of the Korean peninsula, and tyranny. The story is about a 1948-1949 revolt on Jeju, an island south of the Korean peninsula, in which thousands of people were massacred.

Anders Karlsson, a lecturer at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies who has translated Han into Swedish, said he was “overjoyed” with the Nobel award.

He reported that Han’s “poignant, condensed” style has the ability to explain “difficult and dark passages in South Korean history … in quite open and inviting language that engages and does not deter the reader.”

Han Kang Wins The Nobel Prize For Literature. She’s The First South Korean To Do So

The literature prize has long been criticized for focusing too much on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated, with Han becoming only the 18th woman among its 120 laureates.

Six days of Nobel announcements began Monday, with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine award. The physics prize went to two machine learning pioneers, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. On Wednesday, three scientists who discovered strong tools for decoding and even designing novel proteins received the chemistry prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be revealed on Friday, followed by the economics award on Monday.

The prize includes a financial reward of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a gift made by the award’s originator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates will collect their honors at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

SOURCE | AP