Fourteen-year-old cheerleader Lucy Brooks briefly lost some friends on Snapchat when Australia’s ban on social media came into effect on Wednesday.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas told CNN’s Jake Tapper his country’s world-first social media ban for children ...

Instagram said it is giving users more control over their algorithm — with the help of artificial intelligence.

Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), the parent company behind President Donald Trump’s social platform Truth Social, plans to roll out prediction markets directly in the app through a deal with ...

Major global outage impacts popular apps and websites, looking at the safety of the NFL, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x Earlier this week, a heartwarming post about a girl, a puppy, and a police ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Elon Musk unveiled the new Twitter X logo on July 24, 2023, ushering in a significant change for the social media giant. The fresh logo, now representing Twitter's brand across its platforms, features ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. Luckily, journalists and creators ...

Updates on the Israel and Iran conflict, a case that could upend social media, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x As a freshman in high school, Caroline Koziol competed in the Connecticut statewide ...

It is common to hear all the reasons why social media is bad. However, social media can have a powerful effect, and some have harnessed that power for good. Sarah Coyne, a BYU School of Family Life ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand teens’ experiences and attitudes around teen mental health and social media. Part of this study also examines parents’ perspectives. The Center ...