America’s most popular social news forum, Reddit, has been added to Australia’s world-first social media ban for children ...

"Elon Musk is a great leader," says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally ...

With over 4.85 billion views, TikTok videos about contraception are shaping how young people around the world understand and ...

is social media really getting banned for kids? and what does this actually mean for parents, teens, and the apps they use every day?

Research on the link between social media use, anxiety, and depression showed that people who limit themselves to 30 minutes ...

The study found that TikTok’s technological affordances indirectly increase addiction by first increasing engagement. The more users engage, the more likely they are to lose track of time – a ...

Gender matters; highly attractive female fitness influencers faced stronger backlash than equally attractive men ...

Placebo is a word with Latin origins meaning “I shall please,” while nocebo means “I shall harm.” More common is the ...

Across an eight-week period, purchase intent among those exposed to TV ads fell 14% on average versus 26% for social media, ...

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Social media has reached more than half (63.9%) of the world’s population since it got started in 1996. Social network platforms grew from 970 million users in 2010 to 5.41 billion in July 2025. The ...