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07.13.2021 Community

TikTok fuels new surge in teen reading habits

When Cait Jacobs started posting book reviews on TikTok in December 2019, she didn’t think anything would come of it. She has been a book blogger since 2016 and...

01.19.2019 Editorials

Editorial: The risks of social media app TikTok

The headline of a cover story that ran more than a decade ago in our now-defunct sister paper, The North Shore Sun, read: “Myspace is a scary place.” The...

01.17.2019 Mattituck Cutchogue School District

Mattituck-Cutchogue officials respond to students’ racist comments

Officials in the Mattituck-Cutchogue School District are taking steps in response to “several” reported incidents of students using racist language, “acting in association” with anti-Semitism and joking about their...

10.16.2015 Columns

Column: Hey, local government. Step into 2015, will ya?

According to its most recent quarterly statement, Facebook has about 1.3 billion active users. Twitter’s website touts 316 million monthly users. About 500 million tweets are sent daily worldwide.

03.05.2014 Government

Facebook aims to limit firearms sales on its sites

Social networking giant Facebook has vowed to help put a stop to illegal gun sales initiating on its social media sites, officials announced at a press conference Wednesday. Facebook,...

03.05.2014 Opinion

Poll: What impact will curbing gun sales on FB/Instagram have?

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday new policies implemented by social media sites Facebook and Instagram that are intended to limit illegal sales of firearms through the sites. Click...

03.21.2013 News

Southold to embrace social media

After discovering a stream of misinformation through social media leading up to Southold School District’s budget workshop last week, Superintendent David Gamberg decided to embrace the platform to better...

03.08.2013 Top News

Relief and joy on social media for Ashley’s safe return

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02.28.2013 Editorials

Editorial: Social media and missing persons

Marshall McLuhan coined the term “global village” in 1962 to describe how our world was being transformed by electronic technology and its ability to carry information anywhere in an...

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