Have you ever tried to reach the end of your feed on Facebook, Instagram, or Bluesky? You probably couldn’t, since those ...

The State of New Mexico's trial against Meta is in its second week, focusing on the impact of infinite scrolling on teens.

The European Commission has taken its most direct shot yet at the way TikTok keeps users glued to their screens, issuing preliminary findings that the platform’s core design features violate the ...

It's become something of a meme to think of social media as a digital skinner box, but is that enough to warrant action against it? The European Commission seems to think so, as it announced that ...

The European Commission took particular issue with TikTok’s “infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly ...

This week, the first trial began in a series of federal and state lawsuits across the United States, accusing social media companies of designing platforms that are intentionally addictive and cause ...

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, ...

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For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent were embroiled in a high-wattage—and highly ...

Ministers are exploring the possibility of introducing an Australian-style social media ban for youngsters under 16 across the UK. The consultation will examine various measures, including raising the ...

Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing Ministers have launched a consultation into whether to ban under-16s from using ...