After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury has heard closing arguments before heading to the deliberation r ...

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

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

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Children and teenagers who spend more time on digital media are more likely to experience mental health, behavioral and academic difficulties later on, according to a major international review ...

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

Social media is often blamed for stoking violence. But it can play a positive role by drawing attention to atrocities – both ...