National Social Media Day, observed annually on June 30th, serves as a celebration of the profound impact social media has on our lives and society at large. As platforms like Facebook, Twitter, ...

FTC data shows consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, with Facebook driving the highest reported losses and investment, shopping, and romance scams leading the damage.

But a new category of technology platforms – known as SocialFi – aims to change that dynamic by integrating financial tools ...

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How does social media affect the mental health of young people, and does more use always mean more harm? Several researchers are working to find out through four pilot studies funded by Yale Child ...

Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...

Researchers have developed a deep learning model to detect mental health symptoms and risk factors on social media. Image: Adobe Stock/Deb Berger for Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Social media ...

Potentially dangerous social media trends are getting kids, and potentially homeowners, into trouble this summer while kids are out of school. Two trends in particular are going viral on social media, ...

This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s ...

Portrait of Caroline Kozoil taken on April 15, 2025. Senior Correspondent As a freshman in high school, Caroline Koziol competed in the Connecticut statewide championship, swimming the 100-yd.

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 ...

Socialwick has introduced a platform aimed at supporting individuals and businesses in managing their presence across major social media platforms. The development comes as competition for visibility ...