In the U.S. 38% of adults used social media to seek information about the 2024 presidential election. With sweeping content ...

As with Facebook, the larger that Twitter’s social graph grew, the more attractive the network became. Pretenders to the short-message throne, such as Parler or Gab, struggled to get traction ...

This is the sixth in my series of posts aimed at understanding the causes of the changes in suicide rates among U.S. teenagers from 1950 to the present, which are depicted in the graph below. For ...

The sizes of these effects are meaningful, but perhaps smaller than social media’s fiercest critics might expect. When mapped onto our original survey questions, the estimated effects are ...

Social media platforms have been designed with profits in mind, rather than users’ well-being. To optimize our use of social media, we need to understand the significant psychological and well-being ...