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Perceptions of Gambling Addiction on Twitter
A recent article published in the Journal of Addictive Diseases took an interesting approach to studying how people perceived gambling addiction during the Covid-19 pandemic. They analyzed Tweets in English from Twitter users in the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. They searched for Tweets that used gambling, addiction and other variations of these terms. After removing unrelated Tweets they were left with 144 Tweets. From these Tweets they inferred some of the following themes: Betting...
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Article on Twitter Changing Ownership
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-elon-musk-deal-what-happens-to-twitter-now-rcna26069 How this could affect clients with problem social media use: 1) As this is something that can drastically change a major social media platform, there could be a spike in anxiety as people await the outcome of this business transaction. 2) Current speculations on what will occur if the transaction does go through is that the space will become more toxic and have more promotion of...