Social Media Broke Up With News. So Did Readers. - The Atlantic

Consuming news might always have exacted an emotional toll, but by 2020, the experience of picking through the wreckage of social media to find out about the world was particularly awful. Read More

Social Media Users Love These Top Books For Fall

Red hot books tend to show up on our social media feeds constantly. I should know, since I’m constantly seeing posts about the books below. One of them, by an editor and podcaster named Jason ... Read More

Fake news, social media, and "The Death of Truth"

Social media companies exercise only limited control, permitting lies, fake news and intentionally divisive content to proliferate. Read More

Social media preys on vulnerability of users to create ... - ABC News

Social media companies have deliberately manipulated the desires and fears of its users to drive their engagement metrics which has created an addiction, according to an author. In his new book ... Read More

Americans don’t trust these news sources - The Washington Post

Americans don’t trust these news sources — but they keep using them New polling from YouGov reinforces that distrust in traditional media, a central engine of the political moment, remains acute. Read More

Demonizing Social Media Isn’t the Answer to Online Safety, a New Book ...

But perhaps banning social media — or heavily monitoring kids who use it, which is another common parental response — isn’t the most constructive solution to the problem. Read More

Nearly 40% of young Americans get their news from influencers ... - CNN

Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. Read More

Yes, teens are texting and using social media instead of reading books ...

A new study has alarming findings, but is probably not surprising to anyone who knows a teenager: High-schoolers today are texting, scrolling and using social media instead of reading books and ... Read More

Founders of 18 Startups Disrupting Social Media ... - Business Insider

There's a new generation of social networks being built. Amid a loneliness epidemic, these new apps hope to bring us closer. Meet the founders who are building these innovative social-media apps. Read More

Spurned by Social Media, Publishers Chase Readers on WhatsApp

News outlets are experimenting with a feature in the world’s most popular messaging app that allows them to send links and headlines directly to followers. Read More

The news is fading from sight on big social media platforms – where ...

Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers. Read More

Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests - BBC

Social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the US, overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites, research suggests. Read More