Rather, the dynamics that give rise to all those negative outcomes are structurally embedded in the very architecture of ...

The United States office of the Surgeon General, tasked with protecting the nation's health, recently published an advisory titled "Social Media and Youth Mental Health.(1) The Advisory describes ...

There’s a pernicious form of viral video that’s reshaping our collective reality, and it’s not even related to artificial ...

Source: Julia Garan/iStock For all the research and conversation we’ve had about social media, it’s amazing that we still get these things so wrong. If you watched Mountainhead, the HBO original movie ...

In two landmark cases, social media companies have been found liable for endangering and harming children. Meta and Google are appealing the verdicts and disputing the idea that their products are ...

This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. SPRINGFIELD — A bill to regulate social media companies and the features they make available to minors is advancing in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A bill to regulate social media companies and the features they make available to minors is advancing in the Statehouse. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in ...

SPRINGFIELD — A bill to regulate social media companies and the features they make available to minors is advancing in the Statehouse. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House voted 82-27 to pass ...

The Illinois House voted on bipartisan lines to pass the Children’s Social Media Safety Act. The bill is designed to limit children’s access to social media algorithms that the courts have ruled and ...

For Blake Robertson, the caregiving crisis is deeply personal. As a teenager, he witnessed firsthand his mother’s struggles after she became the primary caregiver of his grandfather after a cancer ...