Goals are to clarify benefits and risks of social media and to contribute to evidence-based guidance for healthy use for ...

Juries in two big cases have affirmed what research is finding: The design of social media platforms is particularly ...

When asked whether social media is a good or bad thing for democracy in their country, a median of 57% across 19 countries say that it is a good thing. In almost every country, close to half or more ...

Social media is a double-edged sword which can both support and harm youth mental health. What matters most, according to the ...

Gen Z is the first generation of people to not experience teenage life without social media. For most of us, we’ve had some ...

Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Legacy TV and movie discovery continue to see many benefits from social media -- in terms of marketing and content discovery. At the same time, social media does much to serve its own content in terms ...

One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen Zers are even more likely to engage in this ...