One in three people believe they don't have to seek the news from traditional outlets like newspapers and television. Instead ...

Human social learning is increasingly occurring on online social platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. On these platforms, algorithms exploit existing social-learning biases (i.e., towards ...

Mental health experts, regulators, and many internet users themselves have called out the damage that social media can do to mental health. Must it addict, inflame, and depress us? A new social ...

Elon Musk said Jack Dorsey was right about social media algorithms. On Wednesday, Musk highlighted a video of Dorsey talking about the free speech debate. Dorsey envisioned “a marketplace of ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has just signed two bills into law that ban social media companies from using algorithms to select what content young people see. The SAFE for Kids Act requires social ...

A flurry of new schemes to launch Europe-based social networks faces a steep, rocky road to seduce users away from American ...