More than half of social media child safety features aren’t working as advertised, new research finds

Researchers at the Cybersafety Research Center found that more than half of social media child safety protections don’t work ...
City A.M.

The ‘like’ button ruined social media – are we making the same mistake with AI?

KNUTSFORD, UNITED KINGDOM APRIL 21: In this photo illustration tweets by Stephen King and Elon Musk is seen on a mobile cellphone on April 21, 2023 in Knutsford, United Kingdom. The social media ...
AOL

Man’s belly button next to Trump during Oval Office announcement steals the show on social media

President Donald Trump's Oval Office briefing was upstaged Thursday as social media users went wild over a man with a protruding belly button. The unidentified man with a noticeable belly button was ...
Slate

A Trendy Way to Break Your Social Media Addiction Costs $59. I Found a Clever Dupe.

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Like many of us, I have struggled with social media. After a day of working at Slate, I’d close my computer, only to reach for my phone. Built in ...
CBS News

Meta and YouTube found liable on all charges in landmark social media addiction trial

A jury on Wednesday found that Meta and YouTube are liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users, a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent for ...
CNBC

UK government to trial social media ban for hundreds of teens

The U.K. is rolling out a trial social media ban for hundreds of teenagers. The trial will see restrictions ranging from curfews to time caps on certain popular apps like Instagram, TikTok, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Atlantic

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...
The Boston Globe

Social media needs a reset button

Mark Bartholomew is the vice dean for research at the University at Buffalo School of Law. Martin Skladany is a law professor at Penn State University. We yearn to remake ourselves each new year. The ...
Medical Xpress

Social media use linked to gradual decline in children's attention span

Children who spend a significant amount of time on social media tend to experience a gradual decline in their ability to concentrate. This is according to a comprehensive study from Karolinska ...