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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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'Pizzagate' and how social media has created a pandemic of misinformation | Terms and Conditions

‘Pizzagate’ and how social media has created a pandemic of misinformation | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom May 2, 2025

“Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party elites are harboring a child sex trafficking ring under Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizza shop.”  Or so said the internet. Emerging during the...

Heed this warning: Social media has a cost to our health | Terms and Conditions

Heed this warning: Social media has a cost to our health | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom April 24, 2025
When former President Joe Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy held office, he made a daring proposal: Social media should be the next product slapped with a compulsory warning. “The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times in June.
The black screens that haunted our pages: social media and activism | Terms and Conditions

The black screens that haunted our pages: social media and activism | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom April 15, 2025

Darnella Frazier was 17 years old when she witnessed police officers brutally murder an innocent Black man on the streets of Minneapolis. Frazier and other witnesses could only stand by and watch as George...

Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Digital footprints and the dangers of just being a kid | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom April 7, 2025
As the first generation growing up with access to social media, Gen Z kids are building a digital footprint both earlier and more expansively than any generation before. 
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

iPads are parenting our kids | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom March 31, 2025
I know plenty of toddlers — a consequence of my work with BU’s Jumpstart program — who do not know the alphabet or how to spell their names, but are acutely adept at navigating an iPad. 
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Boredom amidst endless entertainment | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom March 24, 2025
We have entered a new age and we need to face its reality — we cannot and will not live without our phones. They are the ultimate source of our entertainment, whether through texts, social media or more traditional entertainment like streaming platforms. 
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Getting back out of touch | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom March 17, 2025
The college experience will never be as immersive today as it was in our parents’ day — perhaps the millennials were the last to reap the benefits of the university bubble. 
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