Propagate Content Acquires Creator-Focused Agency Sway Social

EXCLUSIVE: Propagate Content, the independent studio founded by Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, has acquired Callen Hamilton Boyer’s creator-first agency Sway Social. The acquisition of Sway Social ...

Lawyers spar in closing arguments for landmark social media addiction trial

The bellwether case could set a legal precedent for whether social media platforms are responsible for causing mental health ...
WPLG Local 10

Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, ...

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 ...

8 AI Tools Creators Swear By to Create More Content, Faster

Creators are tapping new tools to streamline editing, research, scripting, and post‑production—in some cases cutting hours of work down to minutes.

‘Swatting’ hoax at L.A. mall likely targeted well-known live streamers

A popular mall in Los Angeles County was placed on lockdown after police received a call from an alleged gunman making active ...
PBS

Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins

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 ...
CNBC

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

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 ...
The Atlantic

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...
CNBC

Australia banned social media for under 16s a month ago — here's how it's going

Australia banned social media apps for under 16s in December, and, a month later, there's been a mixed reaction from teens, experts and tech firms. As many teens find ways to circumvent the law, major ...
The New York Times

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...
NPR

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...