A 'quiet revolution': Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones

Gen Z and millennials deleting their social media platforms cite the increasing pressures of being online as well as the ...
CNET on MSN

Social Media and AI Want Your Attention at All Times. This New Documentary Says That's Bad

Social Media and AI Want Your Attention at All Times. This New Documentary Says That's Bad ...

Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has ...
Washington Examiner

Social media isn’t all bad. We just need to use it wisely

One of the biggest problems with social media is how it’s destroying attention spans. We’ve become so used to scrolling through TikTok, Instagram reels, and Twitter threads that sitting down to read ...
news.ucsb.edu

When it comes to erosion of democracy, not all social media are equally harmful

The spread of conspiracy theories, anti-elite attitudes and other beliefs often deemed corrosive to democratic health is common across virtually all social media. But according to a recent paper ...

"I wanted to be on it all the time," plaintiff says in social media trial

The 20-year-old plaintiff alleges that using YouTube and Instagram from a young age intensified her depression and led to suicidal thoughts.
Forbes

A Beginner's Guide: 5 Strategies For Leveraging Social Media

It is nearly impossible to live a life free of social media influence. It's free and entertaining, and almost everyone on the planet is participating. From Pinterest boards to TikTok dances to ...
Stars and Stripes

Pentagon orders global social media pause, with exceptions for border operations

Editor’s note: This story was updated Jan. 27 to reflect the status of Defense Department school social media communications. The Department of Defense issued a global pause on all official social ...
Pew Research Center

4. Content from prominent alternative social media accounts highlights extreme vaccine skepticism, anxiety over LGBTQ issues

Along with identifying samples of 200 accounts with the largest number of followers on each of seven alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center also collected all of the posts produced by ...