The APA cautions that sites that use "like" buttons and artificial intelligence to encourage excessive scrolling "may be dangerous for developing brains" and recommends limiting social media use ...

Anyone familiar with Haidt’s work in the past half decade could have anticipated his answer: social media. Although Haidt ... Facebook’s Like and Share buttons, Twitter’s Retweet function ...

Such sources of potential confusion, misinformation or disinformation are worrying at any given time, particularly so as PNG’s election campaign gathers pace in a country where social media has wide ...

People are increasingly interacting with others in social media environments where algorithms control the flow of social information they see. Algorithms determine in part which messages ...

Whether or not social media affects mental health, and to what degree, has long been up for debate. While some contend that social media connects the world, others argue that it feeds a culture of ...

Girls (48%) are more likely to say they’ve cut back on social media use than boys (40%), according to Tuesday’s report. General mental wellbeing among teens is a broader concern; 89% of ...

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is calling for stronger guidelines for social media use among children and teens, pointing to a growing body of research that the platforms may pose what he ...

A new report details the role social media plays in the lives of young people, and how they manage the various pros and cons — including in the context of being a person of color or LGBTQ+ ...