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Why Disasters Like Hurricanes Milton and Helene Unleash So Much Misinformation
While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major target of false
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Posts Encouraging Eating Disorders Were Recommended to X Users
Communities that promote eating disorders have been thriving on X, with some users saying the platform has recommended content to them that glorifies or encourages starving, self-harm and being underweight. … “For someone who is
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We Scroll Through 300ft of Newsfeed a Day, And Bad News Gets Most Attention
The average smartphone user is scrolling through 300 feet of news feed a day, the height of the Statue of Liberty, Dr Jay Van Bavel, a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU says.
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Instagram to Automatically Put Teens Into Private Accounts With Increased Restrictions and Parental Controls
Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that give parents more control. … Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the “The Anxious Generation,” wrote in
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The Biggest Change to Instagram in Years
Teenagers are said to live on their phones, and one of the places where they spend the most time is Instagram. For many years, the perception has been that they are totally unsupervised there, much
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Gen Z Has Regrets
Was social media a good invention? One way to quantify the value of a product is to find out how many of the people who use it wish it had never been invented. Feelings of
