Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular ...

Social media drives diet culture, harms body image, and links to addiction; integrated treatment approaches are necessary..

The conversation at my family dinner table this week was heavier than usual. After discussing Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination, I asked my three sons a question I dreaded hearing the answer to: Did ...

Young adult "night owls" (or "evening types"—those who prefer to stay up late) are significantly more at risk of developing problematic relationships with smartphones and social media, according to a ...

Spending too much time online can make people feel isolated in real life. Less face-to-face interaction can weaken ...

The ruling was a big win for plaintiffs ahead of a Nov. 19 bellwether trial, the first in the nation to hold social media companies liable for a mental health crisis among America’s youth. Los Angeles ...

A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel said tech companies failed to prove that most of the law's restrictions on social media features aimed at kids are unlawful. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...

On Wednesday, Lake Havasu City and the Mohave County Health Department (MCHD) partnered to host a presentation to parents detailing how dangerous social media and the internet can be for ...

Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., ByteDance Inc., and Google LLC all deliberately designed social media products to be ...

Loneliness and anxiety among "night owls" trigger smartphone and social media addiction, according to new research. Young adults who stay up all hours are more prone to developing "problematic" ...

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some ...

Being a night owl has its perks. Scientists have found that people who habitually stay up late may be more creative, and perhaps even more intelligent, than those who go to bed and wake up earlier.