In a pocket of spare time, you may reach for your phone to scroll social media - but how often do you end up spending more time here than you planned?

Social media is “designed to keep our eyes on it – in order to make us look at advertisements”, said Professor Robin Banerjee, who led the research. This means “we’ve got this very, very clear pattern ...

You can lose the battle but still win the war ...

To fix it, go to Settings > Manage all history. I find the offending videos and remove them. When they’re gone from your history, the algorithm no longer uses them to suggest what’s next. If your feed ...

The dominant narrative frames doomscrolling as a dopamine addiction or a willpower failure. Behavioral science suggests something more honest: your brain is seeking low-stakes unpredictability because ...