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Scrolling to doom? Here's what happens to kids when they are exposed to social media early in their lives

Researchers have been raising red flags for years, suggesting that too much screen time at a young …

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Mass X-odus: What are the controversial changes on X that are driving users away?

X, formerly Twitter, is facing a mass user exodus due to a combination of political controversies, …

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Even high school interns were able to use common AI tools to bypass security and launch bots on X, Facebook and other social media: report

Social media platforms like X and Facebook are facing increasing scrutiny over their ineffective bo…

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Norway wants to ban under-15s from social media, and expects an 'uphill battle'

Norway plans to ban social media for children under 15, expanding existing laws which have been wid…

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Gen Z folk are showing off their deformed ‘smartphone pinkies’ — and the images are horrifying

Many people are flaunting their bent pinkies online, a modern issue that is the direct result of ex…

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Australia wants to ban kids under 16 from social media as world governments seek to crack down on the 'addictive' apps

Australia announced plans to ban children under 16 from accessing social media in an effort to curb…

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Most adults agree: Ban phones in schools. But that's the easy part — social media is the harder question.

Nearly 70% of adults in a recent Pew survey said cellphones should be banned during class time. Tha…

Katie Notopoulos   


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My husband and I share phone and social media passwords. It makes me feel secure in our relationship.

Cynthia Loya and her husband have the password to each other's phone and social media accounts. She…

Cailey Griffin   


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Trump's social media stock is tanking. Here are 2 possible reasons.

It's hard to make sense of a meme stock's moves. But let's try, anyway.

Peter Kafka   


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I was the last generation in college without a smartphone. We were more spontaneous, and social media didn't dictate our lives.

In college, I didn't have a smartphone. We had spontaneous hangouts, knew nothing about strangers, …

Vanessa Ogle   


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Baadshah of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan debuts on India's richest list with Rs 7,300 cr — here's how the King made his wealth

Shah Rukh Khan joins India's wealthiest with Rs 7,300 crores, driven by ventures in films, producti…

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I sell multi-million dollar homes to London's super-successful. The internet has meant buyers have become much younger.

Daniel Daggers sells some of the UK's most expensive properties and stars in Netflix's "Buying Lond…

Polly Thompson   


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Parents spend more time on their smartphones than children and this might be straining relationships, new study suggests

A recent study revealed the strain smartphones are placing on parent-child relationships in India. …

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Australia has a plan to combat the iPad kid: set a national age limit for social media

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the exact age — and how it'll be enforced — hasn't been decide…

Geoff Weiss   


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Kids want social media apps to do more to protect them from the spread of deepfake nudes

As young kids face the growing scourge of deepfake nudes spreading online, many say social media co…

Katie Balevic   


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'The Man with 1000 Kids' sperm donor Jonathan Jacob Meijer said his children should use a symbol on social media to prevent incest

Netflix's "The Man with 1000 Kids" details how Jonathan Jacob Meijer told a court that his children…

Eammon Jacobs   


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The mass IT outage is causing chaos, but social media users are having a field day

Social media users turn, once again, to memes as they poke fun at Friday's widespread IT outage.

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I invested in early social media startups. After having 3 kids, here's why I never share my kids' photos online and prefer group chats instead.

Mark Weinstein has three kids under the age of 9. He doesn't post photos of his kids, and the young…

Kelly Burch