After being released from detention in 2011, Egyptian engineer and activist Wael Ghonim told the media:If you want to liberate a society, all you need is the internet.He'd been taken into custody for ...

Large social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok have billions of users across the globe. The decisions they make about privacy, content moderation and misinformation can impact ...

A San Jose parent shares a tragically common story that, she argues, makes proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 2, worth passing.

There is global interest in limiting social media access for young people. But the arguments for a ban for people under 16 ...

Adolescents with mental health conditions spend more time on social media and engage differently online than their mentally ...

A new study out of the University of Cambridge suggested that adolescents with mental health conditions experience social ...

The time children spend on these sites, the content they are watching, and the cognitive and emotional aftermath are ...

Likes, comments, and the dopamine hit of new notifications make it easy to get caught up in the endless entertainment of social media. Yet social media can also disrupt sleep, convey unrealistic views ...

Adolescents with mental health conditions report distinct and often more negative experiences on social media compared to ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Social media giants may soon face legal reckoning. About 45 school districts across ...

The bill's author, State Rep. Jared Patterson, called social media "the most dangerous legal thing minors can access." ...

We know that social media can be harmful to teens. Meta’s own research has found that Instagram worsens body image for one in ...