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Juries in two big cases have affirmed what research is finding: The design of social media platforms is particularly compelling and hard to resist for kids. There are growing calls to change it.

After a landmark verdict in the social media addiction trial, a college student details the scope and impact of mindless scrolling on campus.

Scrolling on TikTok can feel like falling down a rabbit hole, and it turns out, there’s a reason for that. We had local users ...

Late last month, Meta was handed back-to-back defeats in two landmark social media trials, a New Mexico case accusing Meta of ...

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

The algorithms are designed to keep you in scrolling.

A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google liable Wednesday for addicting young users to social media platforms in a landmark case after nine days of deliberations.

Limited methods and a lack of guidance around diagnostic criteria mean that many scientists are reluctant to use the term ...