California enacted laws restricting addictive social media features for under-16s and banning AI companion chatbots in toys.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of bills intended to protect children by regulating internet use, including limiting chatbot ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under the ...

Chad Sexton, known on social media as @thechadlife_, is on The Courier Journal's list of Louisville's Top Content Creators of ...

Google has patched an actively exploited Chrome V8 zero-day that lets attackers run code inside the sandbox via a crafted web page.

Social media algorithms are a powerful feature of online life, serving up content to users based on their browsing habits or ...

Much of the internet still depends on programming languages created decades ago. Their age hasn't stopped them from running ...

The Hong Kong government has sought since 2007 to introduce "national education" courses to strengthen "national identity ...

Research from Aston University has shown that the public has no clearly accepted definition for the term "social media" or agreement about which websites and platforms are classified as such.

Flipboard has been one of the biggest boosters of decentralized social media. Now, the company, which is known for its social news reading app, is rolling out its latest experiment, "social websites." ...

A jury on Wednesday found that Meta and YouTube are liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users, a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent for ...

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...