Is social media addictive? How it keeps you clicking and the harms it can cause

Big tech companies argue their platforms are communication tools not traps, and that addiction is a mischaracterisation of high engagement.

When Posting Becomes Its Own Style of Politics

Social media has long been flooded with populist rage and discontent. What happens when the posts become policy?
Nature

Is social media addictive for teens? US courts wade into scientific debate

Another complication is how social-media use is evaluated: many studies look only at total amount of time spent on the ...
Scientific American

Algorithms really do create political polarization—and this AI tool let users avoid it

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial

Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them.

SocialPost.ai Launches AI That Turns Any Business Website Into On-Brand Social Media Content Automatically

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

Social Media

ByteDance’s AI-video creator draws buzz for its realistic scenes and a backlash over privacy and copyright. Former Twitter CEO and Parallel Web Systems CEO Parag Agrawal reflects on the platform's ...