Assessing social media and mental health. The brittleness of the glass does not cause the shattering in the way the person who drops it causes the shattering.

The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.

There was once a time when I blamed all the world’s problems on social media. Consumerism? Blame social media. Growing intolerance? Blame social media. Religious and ideological extremism? Blame ...

The future of social media is being shaped less by new platforms and more by shifting behavior, fragmentation, and ...

A major new study has found what many parents feared but science is only now confirming. It’s not video games. It’s social media that seems to be undermining teenagers’ ability to concentrate. Over ...

Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...

While the Biden administration seeks to aggressively regulate TikTok, it has given up attempting to control disinformation on domestic social media companies. TikTok, Biden, and the Future of Social ...