It’s among the first successful lawsuits in the nation making social media sites liable for mental health outcomes. While this lawsuit could open the door to further litigation and regulation, the ...

A Colorado teen surveyed over 1,000 girls and found strong links social media use and anxiety, depression and sleep ...

Jurors found Meta and Google liable for building apps that inflicted mental-health problems on a teenager, and similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I used to run mental health for the state of Indiana, but I’m a recovering lawyer by trade. That mismatch means people often ask ...

The proposed response – in Australia, now proposed in the UK and elsewhere – is to ban social media for under-16s. It is an ...

A major new study has found what many parents feared but science is only now confirming. It’s not video games. It’s social media that seems to be undermining teenagers’ ability to concentrate. Over ...

Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...

Users of X, Elon Musk-owned social network formerly known as Twitter, reported multiple problems accessing the website and app Friday evening. Error reports for X ...

Google UK boss issues new warning over potential social media ban for under-16s - Kate Alessi also says Google plans to ...