Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube dispute claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm ...

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or ...

New technology reads a company's website and content to generate unlimited on-brand social posts with no setup required ...

In a series of landmark trials, plaintiffs are alleging that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through ...

We focus on technology, social, and governance issues concerning social media, with countries banning children and teenagers ...

Stanford expert testifies Meta's social media features are addictive like a "drug," especially for youth, in New Mexico lawsuit against the tech giant.

Social media algorithms driven by AI shape far more than what appears on our screens, including how we think, feel, and ...

Meta, the company that operates the social media platform Facebook, has developed and received a patent for an artificial ...

The assumption that social media use harms teens has always relied on an inconclusive body of research.

Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was ...

Yes, use of these platforms can sometimes harm. But it's not all bad. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...