A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults.

This article was originally featured on KHN. Consider three hypothetical women in their mid-70s, all living alone in identical economic circumstances with the same array of ailments: diabetes, ...

Despite a court challenge, Australia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on certain social media platforms ...

As the federal government shutdown threw Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits into uncertainty, leaving millions of Americans unsure how they would feed their children, a Kentucky ...

LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users for five years that, while intended to improve how the platform worked for members, could have affected some people’s livelihoods, according to a ...

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve ...

A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer, a business reporter ...