Researchers call this “content scraping.” Investigations by major news outlets found that anonymous accounts repost clipped ...

According to the New York Times, the study looked at the screen time habits of 1,458 teens ages 13 to 17. If you’re a parent ...

Recent research shows that reducing social media use for at least one week can lower rates of anxiety, depression, and ...

Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

North Carolina lawmakers should pass laws to curb the addictive nature of social media and to study the impact of artificial intelligence chatbots on young people, the North Carolina Child Fatality ...

Starting Dec. 10, Australia is the first country to ban social media for kids under 16. It's up to social media companies − including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat, YouTube and others ...

New research shows that while true Instagram addiction is rare, the widespread habit of labeling everyday scrolling as an “addiction” can sap users’ confidence, fuel self-blame, and steer them away ...

Instagram users may overestimate the extent to which they are addicted to the platform, according to research conducted on 1,204 U.S. adults published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that ...

Matthew Bergman in his Upper East Side apartment on Nov. 17, 2025. Senior Correspondent One afternoon last summer, Matthew Bergman sat on a bench outside a courtroom in downtown Manhattan. The founder ...

Social media has surely come a long way, hasn’t it? What started as a fun way to pass the time now feels more like a full-time job. Scrolling through TikTok, refreshing Twitter for the latest updates, ...