Social media addiction’s surprising challenger? Anti-doomscrolling influencers

With billions of active users across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other social media platforms, cutting down on screen time ...
Tech Xplore

World-first social media wargame reveals how AI bots can swing elections

On December 14, 2025, a terrorist attack occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaving 15 civilians and one gunman ...

How the Trump administration is using influencers to justify its immigration policies

A recent surge in federal agents and Trump-friendly social media influencers to Minnesota is part of a White House communication strategy that emphasizes online content to influence policy.

Global Professionals Achieve Verified Recognition Through Web Developer Certification and Credly Digital Credentials

Professionals worldwide gain standardized recognition for web development skills through assessment-based certification ...
Tallahassee Democrat

Florida has green light to restrict minors' social media access

A federal appeals court has lifted an order that was blocking a Florida law limiting social media access for minors. The 2-1 ruling reverses a lower court's decision that had previously called the law ...

10-hour factory shifts to US tech firm: How Indian man rewrote his future in just 18 months after dropping out of college

After quitting his factory job, he focused on programming, mastering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, and eventually landed ...
The New Yorker

Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead?

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Let’s say, for the sake of the following discussion, that we agree on the following: Teen-agers have First ...
Reuters

From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access

SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday will become the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), ...
Fox News

Australia begins enforcing social media law banning children under 16 from major platforms

Australia’s landmark new social media age law is set to go into effect, barring anyone under 16 from holding an account as the government moves to enforce one of the world’s strictest online safety ...
USA Today

Australia is first nation to ban social media for kids. Is the US next?

Starting Dec. 10, Australia is the first country to ban social media for kids under 16. It's up to social media companies − including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat, YouTube and others ...
NBC 6 South Florida

Florida law banning kids from social media takes effect after court rules in favor

The challengers lost in court, so Florida’s law banning young teens from having their own social media accounts can now go into effect. Passed with bipartisan support, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 3 ...
The Conversation

‘Make the platforms safer’: what young people really think about the social media ban

Michael Dezuanni receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Kim Osman and Lynrose Jane Genon do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...