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Over half of America's adults get their news from social media
According to a recent Pew Research analysis, over 50 percent of American adults say they get at least some of their news from ...
New York Sun1d
New Survey Outlines Gen Z’s Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media
According to a poll of more than 1,000 adults aged 18-27 conducted by a social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, and the Harris ...
The Herald12hOpinion
OUR VIEW: Social media a sword that cuts on both directions
A 2023 advisory by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy indicates that use of social media for more than three hours a day doubles a ...
42 state attorneys general demand a Surgeon General warning label for social media apps
It’s hard to get 42 states to agree on much. But a bipartisan group of attorneys general on Tuesday demanded that Congress ...
Sweeping FTC study finds that social media sites engage in ‘vast surveillance’ of its users
The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The ...
PBS10d
Social media’s role in fueling extremism and misinformation in a divided political climate
Half of U.S. adults say they sometimes get their news from social media. However, almost two-thirds of adults say they view social media as a bad thing for democracy. This raises the question of what ...
Psychology Today4d
Warning Labels on Social Media Should Be Applauded
There’s one thing about the incident that I’m glad about: that it happened before the advent of social media. If the same ...
F.T.C. Study Finds ‘Vast Surveillance’ of Social Media Users
Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission ...
California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law making it illegal for social media platforms to knowingly provide addictive ...
Hochul talks students’ social media, cell phones at NYSUT conference
The 600,000-member-strong union NYSUT—which stands for New York State United Teachers—held a conference on September 20 to ...
Banning kids from social media in Australia? There's a better way
The government believes the danger is so acute that it is proposing drastic measures: social media platforms would be banned ...
Hampton Roads students and parents fearful, on edge amid school threats and rumors on social media
The social media frenzy came on the heels of the shooting and killing of a 15-year-old Menchville student in Newport News ...