India is discussing age-based social media restrictions with social media companies, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday. Any crackdown in India, a country of 1.4 billion people, could have a ...

March 6 - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab YouTube ...

The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury. By Eli Tan and Cecilia Kang Eli ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that there can be problematic usage of social media, but he disagreed that it constitutes an addiction. Mosseri testified in Los Angeles Superior Court during a social ...

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

In this photo illustration, a Meta logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (SOPA Images via Getty Images) Meta went ...

For most young people, learning about social and political issues doesn't start with a textbook. It starts with a phone. While debates intensify about whether to impose a social media ban on under-16s ...

The government wants prosecutors to investigate X, Meta and TikTok, adding to a growing clash between the U.S. and Europe over regulating social media. By Jason Horowitz Jason Horowitz, the Madrid ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...

Welcome to our guide on the different types of work at home jobs! With the rise of remote work and the ongoing pandemic, ...