While an under-16 social media ban offers simplicity and shifts responsibility to tech companies, it's an incomplete solution ...

A new Australian study links two or more hours of daily social media use in early adolescence with poorer mental health outcomes one year later.

Molly Russell’s dad says rushing through social media ban for under-16s is ‘deplorable’ - Sir Keir Starmer was accused of ...

Adolescents who spend at least two hours a day on social media are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and poorer wellbeing, with the strongest effects in early adolescence, according to new ...

For more than a decade, social media has operated under a simple economic logic: platforms capture value, while users generate it. The billions of posts, photos, comments, and videos that fill the ...

Users of X, Elon Musk-owned social network formerly known as Twitter, reported multiple problems accessing the website and app Friday evening. Error reports for X ...

Growing intolerance? Blame social media. Religious and ideological extremism? Blame social media. Lower attention span? Blame social media. I was the one at the dinner party talking about how I’d ...

In the early 2000s, social media was a baby. Cut to now: Statista (2023) predicts there should be around six billion social media users worldwide by 2027. While such rapid growth makes it difficult ...

Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...