X — formerly known as Twitter — is experiencing outages, users reporting social media site is down

X is down for many users, with a sharp spike in reported issues. Data from Downdetector shows complaints from users of the ...

Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has ...

Banning social media won’t work. Here is a smarter way to deal with the problem

The UK government recently rejected calls for a blanket ban on social media – and the ancient Cnut’s real lesson is awfully ...
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Growing problems with Australia’s childhood social media ban

Australia’s childhood social media ban is being challenged by two 15-year-olds in the High Court. Even if their case fails, the demerits of the policy in terms of rationale and implementation are ...
Pew Research Center

4. Content from prominent alternative social media accounts highlights extreme vaccine skepticism, anxiety over LGBTQ issues

Along with identifying samples of 200 accounts with the largest number of followers on each of seven alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center also collected all of the posts produced by ...