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In December 2025, Australia became the first country to ban youth under 16 years old from holding accounts on major social media platforms, a policy now under consideration in more than a dozen ...

A new paper summarizing decades of research demonstrates how social media has supported an explosion of diversity in gender and sexuality in America during the 21st Century, and also how these ...

New research on mental health and online influence shows social media is reshaping for boys what it means to be a man—for ...

As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether depressed kids simply spend more time on social media? A new study provides ...

For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two landmark Caribbean newspapers—Guyana’s Stabroek News and Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday—have folded as social ...

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The note was posted on our Instagram Stories in the summer of 2023. It received much fanfare from our followers. Source: Courtesy of Angela Patterson Thanks to my best friend (whom I met at age 13) ...

Social media can be both good and bad for your body image. What really matters is how you use it. This requires you to use social media intentionally and strategically. Social media can influence your ...