For the latest survey data on social media and tech use among teens, see “Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025.” Public health experts, lawmakers and parents have cautioned about the effects of ...

The recent court decision that ruled against Meta and YouTube, on the grounds that they caused mental harm to a young woman’s perceptions of her body, suggests that social media has addictive ...

The teenage years can be a time that resonates strongly with strategies designed by social media to ensnare users in a vicious circle that’s hard to get out of ...