You know that guilty feeling when you unlock your phone just to “check something,” and suddenly—bam!—45 minutes vanish into the vortex of TikTok dances, Instagram reels, or endless Reddit threads?

There's no escaping screens - they're a permanent part of our lives. What's also becoming more clear by the day, though, is how harmful they can be to a young person's developing brain. In recent ...

Social media use has long been part of the everyday lives of most children and adolescents. Many of them exhibit risky, and in some cases even addictive, behavior. While social media use can certainly ...

New York is proposing new rules restricting “addictive” features used by social media platforms in an effort to keep children safe online. The proposed rules would be created under the Stop Addictive ...

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New York’s attorney general on Monday proposed regulations for its crackdown on addictive social media feeds for children, including rules for verifying a user’s age. The Stop Addictive Feeds ...

New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media. Wednesday’s ...

New York is inching closer to fully enacting a 2024 law meant to protect kids online by restricting their access to addictive algorithmic feeds and nighttime social media notifications. On Monday, ...