Social media is often blamed for stoking violence. But it can play a positive role by drawing attention to atrocities – both past and present – which research suggests can make them less likely to ...

The ban is to take effect March 28, according to a government minister, but details about how it would be carried out were ...

Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said Friday.

A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoids the issue of liability for content and focuses on allegations that social media ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that there can be problematic usage of social media, but he disagreed that it constitutes an addiction. Mosseri testified in Los Angeles Superior Court during a social ...

For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...

Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

Spain will join the growing list of countries banning access to social media for children, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. The law will apply to users under 16 years of age amidst a ...

A world-first study will test whether reducing the time teenagers spend on social media really does improve their mental health. But the results aren’t due until mid-2027, by which time further ...

There appears to be a "Goldilocks zone" when it comes to social media use among teenagers. Too much social media use can negatively affect a teenager's well-being, a new study finds, dovetailing with ...

A selection of social media apps on an iPhone home screen (Amy Skorheim for Engadget) For a tech writer, being very offline is sort of like being a marathon coach who doesn’t run. So in 2025, I tried ...