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Social media platforms regularly track, aggregate, and monetize adolescents' data, yet provide them with little visibility or agency over how algorithms construct their digital identities and make inferences about them. We introduce…
With the emergence of short video-sharing platforms, engagement with social media sites devoted to opinion and knowledge dissemination has rapidly increased. Among these platforms, TikTok is one of the most popular globally and has become…
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