Instagram’s Reels video service is designed to show users streams of short videos on topics the system decides will interest them, such as sports, fashion or humor. The Meta Platforms-owned social app ...

Kids' entertainment is massive on YouTube, the internet video-sharing arm of Alphabet Inc.'s Google. It's also incredibly controversial. Because YouTube lets people post clips with few limitations, it ...

The researchers, the New York Times reports, find that the same tenets that reward extremism also happen with sexual content on YouTube: A user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of ...

When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior ...

Educators, parents and researchers agree social media is highly addicting, and if algorithm-based posts are not driving the mental health crisis plaguing kids, they're at least riding shotgun. But the ...

Instagram’s Reels video service is designed to show users streams of short videos on topics the system decides will interest them, such as sports, fashion or humor.