Your Attention Please, a documentary premiering this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas, explores how we live in the attention economy.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments on a Florida law restricting minors' social media access, challenged as a First Amendment violation.

Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

A bill that would eliminate "low-earning" degrees and restrict social media for children younger than 17 years old passed the Indiana House of Representatives on Feb. 17. Senate Bill 199, which passed ...

In the latest escalation of their efforts to push back against opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security is issuing hundreds of subpoenas to the ...

People don’t agree on much these days. But one thing brings them together, whatever their politics: the idea that, because social media harm children and teenagers, they should be banned from using ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that there can be problematic usage of social media, but he disagreed that it constitutes an addiction. Mosseri testified in Los Angeles Superior Court during a social ...

This is an excerpt of the Sustainable Switch newsletter, where we make sense of companies and governments grappling with climate change, diversity, and human rights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

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 statements in one such trial ...

I’ve seen this before. In 2000, I built a chatbot that could talk to other bots across networks. We called it a ‘botnet’ when numerous bots would carry out coordinated actions across one or more ...

For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...