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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will not be joining Twitter's board of directors as previously expected.

Sometimes it feels like Facebook should come with a warning label: Enter at your own risk.

The internet can be a harsh place, and it can be easier to slip into bad habits on social media than in the “real world.” You can’t always see the damage you do, you can react within seconds in the heat of anger, and it’s hard to take your words back once you’ve put them out to all of Facebook.

As Christians, we should be especially careful what we post online, and more importantly, how we treat others. You might be able to come up with more, but here are 10 problem areas that I see most often. Have you noticed yourself or others falling into these traps?

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After a week of saying that he would launch a new social media platform, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has become Twitter's largest shareholder.

Twitter has taken action against Christian media platforms the Babylon Bee and The Christian Post for calling Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, a man.

In an interview with Christian Headlines, Sadi Robertson Huff encourages young Christians to be intentional with how they use social media.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has released its annual "Dirty Dozen" list, a list of companies the organization says facilitates, enables or profits from sexual abuse and exploitation.

A major evangelical website recently reviewed a new book on the rise of technology in which the review lamented the challenges Christians face when navigating the digital world led by Google, Amazon, and Facebook. It was a helpful review of what seems to be a valuable book. But there was plenty of cyberspace irony. The title of the post was optimized for Google’s search algorithms. The review featured a “buy this book on Amazon” widget. And the website prominently displayed easy-to-link quotes to share on social platforms such as Facebook.

Such is digital life for Christians in the modern age. We have a love-hate relationship with the online realm. Everyone is dependent on technology, but everyone loathes some aspects of it. For example, it seems like every week one of my friends creates a Twitter thread about how he is going to quit Twitter (some for the third or fourth time). And I can’t count how many times I’ve seen an article about “Why I left social media, and how it made my life better” go viral on social media.

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Justice Clarence Thomas said this week that the Supreme Court will re-examine the issue of whether federal law should allow social media sites like Facebook to have broad legal immunity when those sites are used to commit crimes.

On Sunday, former President Donald Trump launched his new social media app, Truth Social.

 “God Is a Freak,” a new song by Australian artist Peach PRC, was rushed into release early Thursday (Feb. 3) after ex-evangelicals embraced a leaked TikTok clip of the track as a rallying cry against purity culture and LGBTQ exclusion.