The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms.

A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.

Stanford expert testifies Meta's social media features are addictive like a "drug," especially for youth, in New Mexico lawsuit against the tech giant.

Social media platform X, previously Twitter, experienced an outage affecting users, with service reported restored by 10 a.m. ET.

Often, these scams promote false products or investment opportunities by impersonating legitimate organisations, or well-known figures using deepfakes.

The government is in active discussions with social media platforms to implement age-gating mechanisms and introduce stronger safeguards against deepfakes, Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on February 17.

X does not appear to have commented on the outage as of press time and did not previously indicate any scheduled maintenance for the app.

India is discussing age-based restrictions with social media companies, following Australia's move to ban under-16s from popular platforms, IT minister Ash...

A survey by Marketagent with 1,000 participants shows that the majority of Austrians support a legal minimum age for social media platforms.