Younger Australian teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Threads are being told their accounts will be shut down ahead of the country's social media ban for under-16s. Meta, which owns the three brands ...
Recent Harvard alumna Gabriela Nguyen started a movement to help people quit social media. The 24-year-old grew up in the Silicon Valley. She's behind the growing "Appstinence," tech resistant ...
Where does Arundhati Roy, a Booker-prizewinning author and activist, get her fiercely independent streak? The clue is in the title.
You might not even think of it as a social media site.
A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...
More schools and governments are turning to tech bans to try to keep kids off screens. Do they work? By Natasha Singer I cover tech, teens and schools. Bullying. Sextortion. Body-shaming. Self-harm.
From Dec. 10, young teenagers in Australia will be banned, under new legislation, from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — in one of the toughest online crackdowns in the ...
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. When billionaire ...
SYDNEY, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Online platforms will ping Australian teenagers through over a million accounts in coming days offering a choice: download data, freeze profiles or lose the lot when a world ...
The measures are part of a country-wide ban on social media for people under 16, a user base estimated to number around ...
HOUSTON - New research out of Texas Christian University points out that cell phones and social media are training our brains to respond more to short "micro" ads than longer commercials. And you can ...
Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle ...