Social media has become a critical tool for documenting the activity of federal agents. In some cases, officers are filming activists right back.

University of Texas at Arlington Professor Dana Litt contributed to a study led by Alex Russell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, that found many parents turn to online peer advice when facing concerns about substance use among their children.

Newly unsealed documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens.

Heavy use of smartphones, internet, and many social media platforms can have debilitating effects on our neural processing, cognitive performance, and behavior.

As Meta heads to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation, the company is making an aggressive push to have certain information excluded from the court proceedings.

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A group of moms listened in as their daughters discussed social media pressure. — -- For some parents, understanding the pressure of social media can be difficult, and as a result, some teens may feel they cannot talk to their parents about ...

On Friday afternoons, shortly before the school bus arrives, my mom comes to my house. She ambles into my kitchen to make a cup of tea, and after a few minutes my preteen son runs through the back door. They will chat briefly, but inevitably my son will ...