Landmark trial accusing social media companies of addicting children to their platforms begins

The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for ...
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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 ...

A 'quiet revolution': Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones

Gen Z and millennials deleting their social media platforms cite the increasing pressures of being online as well as the damage to their mental health.

Young woman says she was on social media ‘all day long’ as a child in landmark addiction trial

A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms.

Fact Check Team: Landmark teen social media addiction trial unfolds as filings go public

Newly unsealed court documents are raising serious questions about what Instagram knew about harmful content on its platform, and when it knew it.

Methuen city council votes to restrict youth social media access

Studies have suggested a link between social media usage and mental health concerns.
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2. Alternative social media sites frequently identify as free speech advocates

To further understand the structure, features and driving principles of alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center researchers conducted an audit of the seven sites analyzed at length in ...