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Social media has spent years becoming increasingly personalized, engaging, and difficult to put down. Platforms like Instagram and Facebook are designed to learn what users respond to and continuously provide more of it. For many people, that experience has become a normal part of everyday life. But for teenagers, that experience is beginning to change. Meta has agreed to introduce a series of new restrictions and protections for users under 18 following a major settlement in

Lately, it feels like every time you try to look up an old friend, classmate, or random person you used to follow, their profile is just… gone. No announcement. No dramatic farewell post. Just: “This account doesn’t exist anymore.” For a lot of Gen Z, deleting social media, or quietly disappearing from it, has become normal. And honestly, it makes sense. The platforms we grew up on were supposed to help us stay connected. They were supposed to be places where we could talk to

A young adult sits alone in their apartment, scrolling through TikTok at 2 a.m. A thousand videos pass by, but none of them make the...

A major legal battle over online access has just come to an end in Arkansas. A federal judge permanently struck down a law that would...

The 2011 Egyptian uprisings were a defining moment in modern history, not just for their scale but for the way social media fueled the...

How young is too young for social media? This question has been at the center of debate in North Carolina, where lawmakers are...

Turns out older adults are using social media like Facebook and Instagram to fill the gap left by fewer in-person interactions. A study...

A freshly unsealed legal complaint is claiming that Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, intentionally crafted its social...

So Mark Zuckerberg, the guy behind Meta, has been accused of rejecting some ideas to make Instagram and Facebook safer for teens. It's...