The United States says it has destroyed more than a dozen mine-laying Iranian vessels to prevent any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting the important role the narrow passageway plays ...

SEBI has directed all regulated entities and their agents to prominently display their registered name and registration number on social media posts related to the securities market. The move aims to ...

SEBI’s new social media disclosure rules take effect May 1, 2026. What changes for brokers, advisers, and financial content online?

The Department of Homeland Security has hired a new digital communications director whose social media content for the Labor Department reportedly raised alarm bells inside the department and beyond ...

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, ...

A young aide behind social posts that echoed white supremacist messaging will help run social media for the much larger Homeland Security Department. Peyton Rollins, a new social media director at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A world-first study will test whether reducing the time teenagers spend on social media really does improve their mental health. But the results aren’t due until mid-2027, by which time further ...

The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability. By Cecilia Kang ...