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.

A trial is probing the impact of the platform's design on young users as a pediatrician and local parents warn of rising ...

Calls for banning social media for young people are rising. A U.S. parent and public health leader explains why bans may miss the real risks — and what may work better.

Australia recently became the first country to outlaw anyone under 16 from having a social media profile. Spain, France and ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

Big Tech may be on the verge of its Big Tobacco moment ...

P eople don’t agree on much these days. But one thing brings them together, whatever their politics: the idea that, because social media harm children and teenagers, they should be banned from using ...

The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment – and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses rise around the world, a key question has emerged: Could the growing ...

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 ...

Longstanding concerns exist about excessive social media use causing mental health problems. The best evidence for this view comes from longitudinal studies showing that earlier social media use leads ...

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