Social Media

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the world’...

The continuous exposure to negative or distressing news online, widely known as doomscrolling, has become a well-recognised phenomenon with significant psychological and social implications. Anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and social isolation ...

Technology has quietly rewritten the rules of leisure time. Not all at once — but steadily, screen by screen. The way we rest, play, and connect looks almost nothing like it ...

Whenever people search for an Instagram video downloader or photo saver, Snapgram rarely appears on the first page of Google. Ironically, this service is actually one of the cleanest and ...

Successful marketers constantly collect high-performing Facebook ads for inspiration, competitor research, and creative analysis. Having the right tool to download Facebook video content makes it much easier to build a ...

Successfully creating a viral TikTok video is like winning the lottery. Out of the millions of uploads on the platform, only a handful become intensely popular to create a worldwide ...

The “lazy influencer” is finished. Social media hierarchies stayed frozen for a decade. If a content creator hit a million followers in 2016, they owned that crowd. It was a closed ...

Brands lose money scaling campaigns that were never ready to scale. It happens more than most people admit. Performance looks acceptable at a low budget, the decision gets made to ...

Meta Platforms’, Facebook and Instagram were charged on Wednesday with breaching landmark EU tech rules and must do more to block children under 13 from accessing the social networks, EU regulators ...

Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16, making technology companies responsible for the task ...

Automation tools have become essential for managing Instagram at scale. Marketing agencies handling dozens of client accounts, influencers scheduling content, and businesses monitoring competitor activity all need programmatic Instagram access. ...

A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta META.O and Alphabet’s GOOGL.O Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 ...

Poland plans to introduce new legislation to ban social media for children under 15 years of age and will hold platforms responsible for age verification, Education Minister Barbara Nowacka told Bloomberg ...

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The Spanish government has ordered prosecutors to investigate social media platforms X, Meta META.O and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said ...

Britain could bring in an Australian-style ban on social media for children under 16 as early as this year and close a loophole that left some AI chatbots outside safety rules, ...

Turkey is laying the groundwork to restrict social media access for minors with a parliamentary report this week calling for broad measures including age verification and content filtering, joining a ...

Spain and Greece on Tuesday proposed bans on social media use by teenagers, marking a hardening of attitudes by European nations against technology platforms they say are designed to be ...

France’s National Assembly on Monday backed legislation to ban children under 15 years old from social media on Monday, amid growing concerns about online bullying and mental health risks. The ...

YouTube grows faster every year, and creators need new ways to stand out. Over 500 hours of video are upload to the platform every minute, which means content fights for space ...

Australian teenagers have taken to social media for the last time to farewell their followers and mourn the loss of the platforms that shaped much of their lives before a ...

President Donald Trump called a fine imposed on Elon Musk’s social media company X by European Union tech regulators “a nasty one” and said he did not understand how ...

Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s GOOGL.O YouTube and Meta’s META.O Instagram ...

A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set ...