CBS News: Social media companies accused of "addicting the brains of children" as trial begins
The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...
Social media companies accused of "addicting the brains of children" as trial begins
The internet has been transformed by social media, and the many platforms are now critical to how we communicate online. The Verge keeps a close eye on everything that’s happening in the social media ...
CBS News: Meta and YouTube found liable on all charges in landmark social media addiction trial
Meta and YouTube found liable on all charges in landmark social media addiction trial
The Hill: New research shows teen social media bans might not be the answer
For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...
New research shows teen social media bans might not be the answer
Wired: A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial
New Scientist: Does limiting social media help teens? We'll finally get some evidence
A world-first study will test whether reducing the time teenagers spend on social media really does improve their mental health. But the results aren’t due until mid-2027, by which time further ...
Science News: Social media can be addictive, a jury finds. Research hints at a link
Social media is designed to be addictive, jurors in a landmark trial against two of the largest social media companies have found. Research in recent years has increasingly suggested a causal link ...
Social media can be addictive, a jury finds. Research hints at a link
Scientific American: Is social media addictive? The science reveals what’s at stake
Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...
NPR: Research points to how companies could make social media less addictive for teens
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 ...
Research points to how companies could make social media less addictive for teens
Devin Nunes was not an obvious choice to run a fledgling social media network, but after $1.1 billion in losses, the former dairy farmer and congressman is out as the head of Truth Social. Donald ...
The U.S. told French authorities it wouldn’t facilitate their efforts to investigate Elon Musk’s X, after a raid on the social-media platform’s Paris office earlier this year. After recent losses in ...
NPR: A short social media detox improves mental health, a study shows. Here's how to do it
If you have ever sworn off social media for a week or two because you sensed it was feeding your anxiety or dampening your mood, you may be on to something. A new study out last week in JAMA Network ...
A short social media detox improves mental health, a study shows. Here's how to do it
MSN: Social media trials usher in Big Tech's latest moment of reckoning
Social media giants spent more than a decade assuring lawmakers, regulators, judges and the public that their platforms are safe for kids, despite years of accusations that the tech platforms ...
CNBC: A 'quiet revolution': Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones
Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...
A 'quiet revolution': Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones
CNN: Social media use is tied to well-being, according to the new World Happiness Report
Social media use is tied to well-being, according to the new World Happiness Report
Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.
The Conversation: Banning social media for under‑16s won’t fix the real problem – the business model of these platforms is dangerous for all of us
Against rising adult concern about child sexual abuse content and children’s mental health, recent calls to follow Australia and ban under-16s from accessing social media in the UK are understandable.
Banning social media for under‑16s won’t fix the real problem – the business model of these platforms is dangerous for all of us
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