Assessing social media and mental health. The brittleness of the glass does not cause the shattering in the way the person who drops it causes the shattering.

The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.

Longstanding concerns exist about excessive social media use causing mental health problems. The best evidence for this view comes from longitudinal studies showing that earlier social media use leads ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I used to run mental health for the state of Indiana, but I’m a recovering lawyer by trade. That mismatch means people often ask ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

The future of social media is being shaped less by new platforms and more by shifting behavior, fragmentation, and ...

A major new study has found what many parents feared but science is only now confirming. It’s not video games. It’s social media that seems to be undermining teenagers’ ability to concentrate. Over ...