Scotland's children's commissioner has warned a social media ban could drive children to less regulated or riskier parts of ...

Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the ...

The vote came days after the Supreme Court rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users ...

Has social media run it's course? Not likely. Apps like TikTok, Facebook, and Linkedin more popular than ever. But with fewer people finding it useful and a flurry of mental health-related lawsuits, ...

Spending too much time social networking appears to be a key driver in loneliness, but a new article suggests motivated uses of social networking sites for connecting with people and feeling ...

Large gatherings of teenagers, known as "teen takeovers", have been organized through social media and have led to fights, vandalism, and arrests in some areas, raising safety concerns among officials ...

Many of us are guilty of doomscrolling, endlessly scrolling through short-form videos or social media posts. Often, we spend more time than we intend on social media. This is because these platforms ...

When US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy pushed last week for a tobacco-style warning on social media, he called the mental health crisis in young people an emergency that demanded action without ...

Two court verdicts this week spotlight the risks for teens from using social media — focusing on not just the content but the design of the platforms. On Wednesday a California jury held Google and ...

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