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TikTok posts on Israel-Gaza war are overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian

“The bulk of the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel videos are getting largely comparable numbers of views,” said Laura Edelson, director of Cybersecurity for Democracy and an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University.
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Germans meet up to eat pudding with forks — and the trend goes global

Last week, the official TikTok account of Boston’s Northeastern University posted a video of students gathered on a lawn eating pudding with forks, with captioned: “DeutschTok, consider this our application.”
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Instagram Promised to Become Safer For Teens. Researchers Say It’s Not Working.

The new report is the second in recent weeks to cast doubt on the efficacy of Meta’s child-safety tools. In late September, a report from other online-safety advocacy groups, which was corroborated by researchers at Northeastern University, found that most of the 47 child safety features promised by Instagram were flawed.
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Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means.

“It’s causing a great amount of fear. Fear for people going to work, even people who are here legally,”said Hemanth Gundavaram, a professor and associate dean at Northeastern University School of Law who is also the cofounder and director of the school’s Immigrant Justice Clinic.
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Is Mass. in the middle of a ‘soft secession’? Here’s what that means

Still, “even a slowdown, you know, that could really wreak havoc with federal systems.” Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, told MassLive.
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The trick to making your smartphone a thousand times faster than it is now

More specifically, a team of American researchers from Northeastern University has developed a technique to control the electronic states of special quantummaterials, paving the way for a new generation of superfast gadgets. Their research was published in Nature Physics .
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Co-author of Republicans’ Project 2025 road map now holds key post to implement shutdown cuts

“The sort of working-behind-the-curtain reputation that he used to have has kind of been slowly dissolving,” said Nick Beauchamp, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University.
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Germans meet up to eat pudding with forks — and the trend goes global

Last week, the official TikTok account of Boston’s Northeastern University posted a video of students gathered on a lawn eating pudding with forks, with captioned: “DeutschTok, consider this our application.” 
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Mocktails for Maga: why the US right is turning sober

Malcolm Purinton, a beer historian at Northeastern University, noted that many young people learned adult socialization during Covid lockdowns, meaning their relationship with alcohol may differ from that of their parents or older siblings. People turning 21, the legal drinking age, do not necessarily see drinking as cool.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl backlash part of history for Latino performers

The anger about the Bad Bunny stems from ignorance that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and that he’s an outspoken Latino artist, Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Northeastern professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, told Axios.
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Why Hegseth’s new press policy was bound to fail

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
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Meta balked at turning over AI chatbot records in lawsuit, setting up court fight

Many of Instagram’s parental controls and safety tools remain easy to bypass and fail to address the features that keep teens hooked, a report from child-safety advocacy groups, corroborated by researchers at New York University and Northeastern University, found.