Half a year since Australia restricted social media companies from providing accounts to kids under 16, signs of success are beginning to show.

Just recently, Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, came under fire for planning to use data from its platforms to train its AI models. This has alarmed privacy advocates once again. The company made small changes to its privacy terms, which could ...

ALBANY, NY (NEWS10) – If you’re on social media, you may have noticed that Meta — that’s the parent company to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp — had allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Companies such as Amazon.com, Meta META-0.02%decrease; down pointing triangle Platforms and X Corp. employed vast consumer-surveillance strategies to monetize user data without providing adequate privacy controls, including for children, according to ...

Is social media harming my well-being? This is a question I often ask myself, wondering if I should keep using it or take a deliberate break from it. As someone who follows the science of well-being, I’ve seen its potential for harm and the benefits of ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Debate over social media restrictions continues to swamp Beacon Hill as top Democrats and digital and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups stake out their positions on regulating children’s use of the platforms. Citing concerns about data privacy and ...

To better understand Americans’ social media use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,733 U.S. adults from May 19 to Sept. 5, 2023. Ipsos conducted this National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) for the Center using address-based sampling and a ...