The American Psychological Association (APA) issued a report Tuesday criticizing how social media is designed in a way that jeopardizes the youth's mental health. More than half of teenagers are ...

Come see Planet Money live on stage! 12 cities. Details and tix here: planetmoneybook.com We practically live on our phones these days. Scrolling and scrolling, endlessly. Entrepreneur Aza Raskin is ...

The end of doomscrolling is nigh. Or at least, for the first time in a long time, it feels like someone in power has actually looked at our collective glazed eyes, and our reduced attention spans and ...

What if the next time you doom-scrolled through Instagram, X or TikTok, you reached an end point? It's hard to imagine. The ...

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Two landmark verdicts this week could reshape the way social media works. In Los Angeles, a jury found Meta and Google negligent in designing apps like YouTube and Instagram to be addictive and ...

S1: Hey there , San Diego , it's Andrew Bracken in for Jade Hyneman. On today's show , we take a look into the ways social media keeps us scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. This is KPBS Midday ...

We’ve all seen it. You buy them a book—maybe a classic you loved or a new bestseller—and it just sits there, collecting dust ...

Isaac Gemal created WikiTok, an infinite scrolling Wikipedia, when a viral tweet triggered demand for its creation. He says he resisted adding algorithms to WikiTok to help people explore the internet ...

A few years ago, everyone was clicking. Today, we’re all scrolling. Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and as of this week, Instagram and Medium - it seems everyone is getting on the infinite scroll bus.