How social media apps are designed has a lot to do with whether teens have good or bad experiences. Daniel de la Hoz/Moment via Getty Images Social media is a complex environment that presents both ...

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Social media is designed to be addictive, jurors in a landmark trial against two of the largest social media companies have found. Research in recent years has increasingly suggested a causal link ...

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Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

Social media use can be harmful. The effects are troubling and well-documented, from tragic stories of adolescent life lost to academic research on the psychological harm such platforms can cause, ...