Spending hours scrolling may not be the only concern. This new study shows that viewing muscle-focused content, comparing bodies online, and addictive social media habits are all tied to greater ...

More than half of college students are lonely – and those who use social media the most are particularly likely to feel isolated, a study of tens of thousands of 18 to 24-year-olds in the US shows.

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

Denmark’s Ingeborg Topsøe, a fast-emerging screenwriter whose credits include Milad Alami’s multi-prized “The Charmer,” has won this year’s Nordic Series Script Award for Netflix smash hit “Secrets We ...

When everything at the Minnesota Capitol can be clipped, edited and weaponized, social media shapes debate, erodes trust and encourages performance over results. Credit: Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto ...

The author of “The Anxious Generation” shares his latest research about the harms social media is doing to children. By Kevin Roose Casey Newton and Whitney Jones Jonathan Haidt did not expect to ...

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ARLINGTON, Va. — A new Virginia law requiring social media companies to limit use for minors took effect this week, but early encounters show that enforcement is operating differently across the ...

YouTube's CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children's social media use, as the harms of being online for young people have become more evident.

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To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...