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 ...

Over the past several months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, ...

"There's debate around a number of themes that seem to be political," says one industry expert about why the Ryan Gosling-led film has seen a sky-high level of social media engagement. By Ryan ...

April 8 - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab YouTube ...

HELSINKI (AP) — Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and ...

A jury in Los Angeles determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using their platforms in a high-profile social media case. It's the first ...

A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found YouTube and Meta liable in a landmark trial over whether social media companies should be held accountable for fueling a mental health crisis among children.

Social media platforms are “not safe” for teens and are harming them at a “massive scale”, a new report has suggested. It said the current “algorithmic” design of platforms such as Facebook, Instagram ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once said that a poet is someone who “manages ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, praised Palestinian terrorists on different social media accounts as a young adult. According to a review of Duwaji’s social media posts by The ...

Children who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, according to new research. Experts suggest the ...