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LinkedIn News takes a look at how social media may be contributing toward high levels of anxiety. Tim Harford recently wrote in a piece for the Financial Times: “It took time to demonstrate that cigarettes caused lung cancer. If social media causes depression and anxiety, it will take time to demonstrate that, too.” Giulio Stix, an Italian based senior leader in the hospitality sector, has read Harford’s piece, and reflects: “Having been pretty much vocal on the fact that there is very little ‘social’ behind the emptiness of [social] media, very little can be done to keep updated on trends of specific industries without being there . . . [but] With all that said my personal recipe is to ‘hide’ all those profiles who lead me to be annoyed or whose [showing-off] of a non-existing happiness is excessive.”

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China’s internet watchdog has proposed that social media platforms review all user comments before publishing. The draft law from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) also proposes for the first time that the person who uploads a post is also responsible for the comments made by others. The draft rules instruct platforms to hire a content moderation team, “commensurate with the scale of the service,” to review all user comments and filter out “harmful” ones before publishing. All types of comments, including original posts, replies and real-time comments that appear on top of a video, fall under the requirements.

Start-up adviser Jennifer Kim posts on LinkedIn with some words for hiring managers vis-à-vis their relationship with recruiters.
“Recruiters are subject matter experts like any other role, if you don't listen or partner with your recruiters you would end up doing wrong hiring or in a complete mess,” concurs one of the 100 people who have commented on Jennifer’s post.

Latesha Byrd, a prolific social media voice in the sphere of career empowerment and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), has created a Twitter community for Black women focused on career and leadership development. You can join Black Girls with Careers here.

A poster on the Human Resources subreddit wants to know about the new policies that were implemented at organizations due to the actions of a sole employee. For example: “We aren't allowed to eat in our offices . . . What happened? Someone dropped an entire bowl of spaghetti on the brand new carpet.” You  can read about other instigated policies – including “No one can wear anything scented . . . All because one employee said she was highly allergic to anything scented and that she would get migraines,” here.