Across 43 countries, children in economically deprived contexts engaged in problematic social media use -- pointing to a public health crisis.

“We can in a very apolitical way help people gain resistance to manipulation online."

A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

The shift toward video over photos means we now have to be better at "performing" authenticity too.

"[M]ore experimental studies are needed to test if sexual function is improved by spending less time on social media or by avoiding negative emotions that social media can trigger."

“It's our opinion Twitter didn't do enough to mitigate the platform manipulation and did very little to stop the abuse and targeted harassment.”

A new study points out how the language used online serves as red flags to spot if one is living in a digital bubble.

"Scrolling social media is so ubiquitous that [we] do it almost without thinking from the moment we wake up to when we close our eyes at night."

In no other significant event have meme pages intervened as much to actively drive the narrative and shape public opinion; sparking a concerning trend.

"Most of the young people are focused purely on getting a good-looking dog. They don't care where it comes from."

Netflix’s ‘White Hot’ traces the story of Abercrombie & Fitch, but inadvertently prompts questions of whether retailers rebranding through inclusivity is enough.

The pattern of bots creating profiles threatens to reinforce racial stereotypes about professionalism.

"Social media platforms were never set up to be serious archives -- but, of course, they could very well become that."

Stronger para-social relationships and TikTok “thirst” language shift the needle towards normalizing uncomfortable sexualization.

WhatsApp is planning to trial a "Communities" feature which will allow group admins to create "inner circles" within larger groups.

Facebook suite’s shutdown has revived calls to regulate big tech in light of the catastrophic impact its unavailability has on daily life.

In an Indian context, hate speech posts against the farmers’ protest end up demonizing people and frame them as anti-government on Facebook.

Misinformation spreads like wildfire on the internet. YouTube's move prompts questioning tech giants on what it takes to stop this.