Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

Twenty-two years after Facebook launched for college students, those innocent days—when social media meant sharing pet photos ...

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok "capture over 90 percent of social media advertising revenues," an Omdia analyst ...

Dove's vending machine appeared to offer variety but, like social media feeds, only dispensed unreal faces.

Defamation, true threats, obscenity, child sex abuse material, direct incitements to violence — each of those forms of expression can be banned and punished because they are not encompassed within the ...

A jury in California agreed with a plaintiff who argued that Meta and Google, two social-media giants, designed their platforms to be addictive. That opens the floodgates to more litigation and ...

If you’ve spent any time on Facebook lately, you may have seen a post claiming you can “reset the Facebook algorithm.” The message usually says something like: “Hold your finger on this post. Click ...

Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said Friday. Hafid in a statement to media said that she just signed a government ...

The National Hockey League is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time since 2014, after skipping the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. Of course, this not only raises the level of competition ...

A butterfly flaps its wings and weeks later a tornado touches down halfway around the world. Mathematician Edward Lorenz used the butterfly effect to explain chaos theory in the 1960s. Now, decades ...