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The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I.

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online. Read More

New York orders teen warning labels for social media, like tobacco

New York is treating teen social media use more like a public health risk than a private pastime, ordering mental health warning labels on addictive feeds in a move explicitly modeled on tobacco and ... Read More

This is your teen’s brain on phones, social media, according to science

For years, the debate over teens and screens has been defined by uncertainty. Parents, teachers, doctors and policymakers have argued over whether phones and social media were truly harming young ... Read More

New York to start treating social media like cigarettes with warning labels

A new New York law mandates mental health warning labels on addictive social media features, allowing state enforcement and reflecting growing global concern over youth online safety. Read More

How To Help Your Teen Use Social Media Safely

Allowing your teen on social media can feel scary. Here's how experts say parents can make the experience safer for them. Social media can offer teens connection and creativity, but parents should ... Read More

Lawsuit alleges social media giants buried their own research on teen mental health harms

Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know exactly how addictive their platforms can be to teens. And they continue to target teen users anyway. Those are allegations a group of school districts is ... Read More

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ... Read More

Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S. Read More

A short social media detox improves mental health, a study shows. Here's how to do it

If you have ever sworn off social media for a week or two because you sensed it was feeding your anxiety or dampening your mood, you may be on to something. A new study out last week in JAMA Network ... Read More

What Your Teen Son Is Looking At On Social Media All Day, According To Survey

Nowadays, social media is much more prevalent in adolescents' lives, especially teenage boys. Most parents have absolutely no idea what their teenagers are looking at all day long while they're ... Read More