A federal appeals court will hear arguments on a Florida law restricting minors' social media access, challenged as a First Amendment violation.

The ban is to take effect March 28, according to a government minister, but details about how it would be carried out were ...

A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoids the issue of liability for content and focuses on allegations that social media ...

For most young people, learning about social and political issues doesn't start with a textbook. It starts with a phone. While debates intensify about whether to impose a social media ban on under-16s ...

Under-16 social media bans are picking up steam across Europe. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis was the latest leader to praise a ban, saying that the experts he’s spoken to have said that social ...

For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...

Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

Spain will join the growing list of countries banning access to social media for children, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. The law will apply to users under 16 years of age amidst a ...

A landmark case against social media giants Meta, Alphabet's YouTube and TikTok is set to begin Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's the first of several high-profile legal cases against social ...

A world-first study will test whether reducing the time teenagers spend on social media really does improve their mental health. But the results aren’t due until mid-2027, by which time further ...

There appears to be a "Goldilocks zone" when it comes to social media use among teenagers. Too much social media use can negatively affect a teenager's well-being, a new study finds, dovetailing with ...