Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has ...

Although social media can have benefits, it can also have significant negative consequences for mental health.

Australia’s childhood social media ban is being challenged by two 15-year-olds in the High Court. Even if their case fails, ...

The problem is not that under-16s are uniquely vulnerable to encounters with screens. It is that all users are navigating systems engineered to optimise distraction at scale. Attention is not ...

Whether reconnecting with old friends, sharing life's milestones with loved ones or networking among work colleagues, social media has become indispensable for many adults and can be both a convenient ...

Along with identifying samples of 200 accounts with the largest number of followers on each of seven alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center also collected all of the posts produced by ...

Users were reporting issues with the popular social media platform during the late afternoon of Tuesday, March 3.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment – and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses rise around the world, a key question has emerged: could the growing ...