When Mark Zuckerberg took the stand before a Los Angeles jury two weeks ago and testified about social media and children's ...

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

Battles are emerging between tech companies and governments that are trying to limit the harm to children and adolescents ...

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 ...

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 ...

A major new study has found what many parents feared but science is only now confirming. It's not video games. It's social media that seems to be undermining teenagers' ability to concentrate. Over ...

Longstanding concerns exist about excessive social media use causing mental health problems. The best evidence for this view comes from longitudinal studies showing that earlier social media use leads ...

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When you have a large social media following, you can make a lot of money and make a great life for yourself. Some content creators choose to use, and even build, their platform on the concept that ...

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