study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration

New York City Sues Social Media Companies Over 'Youth Mental Health Crisis'

Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path

Nepal’s government has lifted its ban on 26 prominent social media apps and messaging services after at least 19 people were killed and more than 200 injured in clashes on Monday

Social media platforms are still pushing depression, suicide and self-harm-related content to teenagers, despite new online safety laws intended to protect children

43 Prozent der Bundesbürger sind lineare Fernsehnachrichten die wichtigste Infoquelle für News. Online-Quellen inklusive Social Media kommen auf 42 Prozent

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Mehrere EU-Länder wollen ein Verbot von Social Media für unter 15-Jährige. Die Plattformen seien gefährlich für die Entwicklung der Kinder

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

How Social Media Distorts Perceptions of Norms

“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content

The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction

the blogosphere, and the public social media landscape, represented the spirit of this civilizational chapter in a much truer way than old media

Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds

Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties

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How Safetyism and Social Media are damaging the kids

Klimawandel: red flags and warning signs in comments on social media

Media freedom is declining across the EU and “perilously close to breaking point” in several countries