Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week, defending his company against claims that ...

Psychologists are calling on parents, educators, policymakers, and content creators to make video-viewing healthier for teens ...

Social media isn’t just connecting teens, it’s consuming them, and we need a better policy approach to curb harm.

Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you,” suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just “for you” but also “about ...

Protecting a teen’s mental and emotional well-being in the digital age also means protecting their digital environment. Cybersecurity and healthy online habits go hand in hand: when teens feel safe ...

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...

New York is planning to prohibit social media companies from using algorithms to control content to youth without parental consent under a tentative agreement reached by state lawmakers, the Wall ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

What does teen anorexia have to do with the crumbling of 21st century democracy? It’s the algorithm, stupid. “There is political unanimity about protecting kids,” says Tom Wheeler, who served as ...

In Olympia, Aaron Ping turns grief into activism, supporting legislative efforts to safeguard minors from addictive social media features after son's tragic death.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nora McDonald, George Mason University (THE CONVERSATION) Social media apps regularly ...