Right at the time social media became popular, teen mental health began to falter. Between 2010 and 2019, rates of depression and loneliness doubled in the U.S. and globally, suicide rates soared for teens in the U.S. and emergency room admissions for self-harm tripled among U.S. 10- to 14-year-old girls.

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When Facebook was down for most of the day on Oct. 4, 2021, did you miss it, were you relieved or some of both? Social scientists have compiled an expansive body of research that shows how people have come to develop a love-hate relationship with the social media giant with

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The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Facebook treats users’ posts differently depending on their wealth, privilege and status. That and other findings based on internal Facebook documents may be troubling enough, but the social network’s bigger problem could be the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents suggest Facebook presented

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An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms – the rules its computers follow in deciding the content that you see – enabled disinformation campaigns based in Eastern Europe to reach nearly half of all Americans in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, according to a

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Just about any article you find out about Section 230 reminds you it contains the most crucial 26 words in tech which is what the law states that made the current internet. This really is all true, but Section 230 can also be the most important obstacle to stopping misinformation

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With under half the U . s . States population fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and because the delta variant sweeps the country, the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory that known as misinformation a sudden threat to public health. The advisory stated efforts by social networking companies to combat misinformation

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