The ban is to take effect March 28, according to a government minister, but details about how it would be carried out were ...

Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said Friday. Hafid in a statement to media said that she just signed a government ...

A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoids the issue of liability for content and focuses on allegations that social media ...

After James Talarico won the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas, Republicans are racing to paint him as too progressive.

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

LISBON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament on Thursday approved a bill, on its first reading, requiring explicit parental consent for children aged 13 to 16 to access social media, in one of the ...

People don’t agree on much these days. But one thing brings them together, whatever their politics: the idea that, because social media harm children and teenagers, they should be banned from using ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine thousands of chatbots immersed in social media created specifically for them, a site where humans may watch but are not allowed to post. It exists. It's called Moltbook, and it's where AI ...

There is little evidence that the amount of time young people spend on social media is linked to later mental health issues, according to a new study. Research following more than 3,000 young people ...