A jury has held Meta and Google responsible for designing social media platforms in a way that deliberately leads to addiction among children, following a seven-week trial which t ...

After a court case determined that social media can be addictive, more discussion is needed regarding how it should be dealt with. Psychologists can help.

Meta and YouTube just lost a landmark social media case in which a jury found them negligent. Now the question is how, if at all, these platforms change?

A bill banning kids under 16 from using social media without parental consent is moving in the Kentucky legislature. Here's ...

Social media is a double-edged sword which can both support and harm youth mental health. What matters most, according to the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for a ban on social media for young teens — citing his own daughter and her phone-obsessed friends as examples of why a clampdown is needed. “I had a birthday party just a ...

India is discussing age-based social media restrictions with social media companies, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday. Any crackdown in India, a country of 1.4 billion people, could have a ...

The government wants prosecutors to investigate X, Meta and TikTok, adding to a growing clash between the U.S. and Europe over regulating social media. By Jason Horowitz Jason Horowitz, the Madrid ...

(WSVN) - Major social media companies are adding a teen safety rating for young users. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, along with Snapchat and TikTok will join a grading system of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening ...

There is little evidence that the amount of time young people spend on social media is linked to later mental health issues, according to a new study. Research following more than 3,000 young people ...

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 ...