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Girls (48%) are more likely to say they’ve cut back on social media use than boys (40%), according to Tuesday’s report. General mental wellbeing among teens is a broader concern; 89% of ...

Social media linguist Adam Aleksic breaking down the Italian brainrot trend. Picture: TikTok/ etymologynerd. Mr Aleksic with AI shark Tralalero Tralala. Picture: TikTok/ etymologynerd ...

Last week, the Australian government legislated a national minimum age of 16 years for opening accounts on major social media platforms. The legislation was built on the increasing recognition ...

In recent months, the term “brainrot” has joined “doomscrolling” as a common way to reference the effect of heavy social media use, and it seems TCL is looking to combat and capitalize on ...

Online discussion of brainrot has recently grown so widespread that some social media users have begun creating parodies of people who seem to embody the condition. Several videos by the TikTok ...

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...

Washington — The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a pair of social media cases that could transform online speech. The two cases concern disputes over Republican-backed laws in Florida ...

Social media can be harmful. That's something all behavioral researchers can agree on. There is much less consensus on how exactly its harmful use is defined, and whether or not there’s a ...