Young adults who took just a one-week break from social media showed improvement in depression, anxiety and insomnia symptoms, a new study says. Plus, tips for how to take a break from your feed.

The company’s new social media app allows users to create short videos with audio from text prompts and insert themselves in AI-generated scenes. The Google subsidiary is the final Big Tech company to resolve a trio of personal lawsuits that Donald Trump filed against social-media platforms.

Research suggests that the political toxicity many users encounter on social media is a design choice that can be reversed

When Los Angeles-based Chloe Shih, 32, started posting videos on social media five years ago, it was primarily a side project. She shared advice on how to navigate the world of tech — a space she knew well, having previously worked for Discord, TikTok, Meta and Google. Then, in January 2024, she was laid off.

The State Department is ordering a new layer of scrutiny telling applicants for key visas to make their social media public.

When the Online Safety Amendment was signed into law last year, it required social media companies to take “reasonable steps” to stop kids under 16 from having or creating accounts on their platforms. Companies found to be slacking on enforcement can be fined up to nearly 50 million Australian dollars, or about 32 million U.S. dollars.

On Monday, Leavitt said on social media that the administration is launching a “Media Offender of the Week” section on the White House website to call out “fake news,” which, you might remember, is a phrase Trump has been known to use to describe accurate journalism about him that he doesn’t like.

Brian Cole was arrested on suspicion of being the Jan 6 pipe bomber, who placed pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters on the eve of the Capitol riot.