A plan to ban all Australian children under 16 from social media is unworkable, unenforceable and ultimately won’t help the people it aims to protect, experts have told New Scientist.

We were more spontaneous, and social media didn't dictate our lives. In college, I didn't have a smartphone. We had spontaneous hangouts, knew nothing about strangers, and didn't take many photos ...

Social media platform Bluesky has seen a boom in new accounts since the election. When Musk bought Twitter, which he later rebranded into X, a slate of new social media platforms jockeyed to be ...

The social network said it had signed up 1m additional users in the seven days since the election. It is on the cusp of hitting 15m users. Bluesky has risen towards the top of download charts in ...

The Australian government's decision to ban social media for children below 16 through 'world-leading legislation' has renewed the conversation in India about a similar ban. Studies, experiments ...

Australia has taken the lead in launching the world's first social media ban for teenagers under the age of 16. Usually the word ‘ban' awakens a mob on social media waxing eloquent about ...

Bluesky was originally backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who in 2019 announced his intention to fund a new, “decentralized” form of social media not controlled by any one company.

Bellack comments on the recent "X diaspora," growing in response to Musk's acquisition of the platform. "This online splintering is taking with it some of the cultural and media power that had ...

Social media platform Bluesky has seen a boom in new accounts since the election. When Musk bought Twitter, which he later rebranded into X, a slate of new social media platforms jockeyed to be the ...

French Newspapers Seek Legal Action Against Social Media Platform X PARIS (Reuters) -Major French newspapers, including Le Monde, Le Figaro and Le Parisien, said on Tuesday that they were taking ...

The Guardian has quit the social media platform X. The news organisation announced its decision on Wednesday to stop posting from official editorial accounts on the platform, formerly known as ...

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, The Guardian newspaper, and even the Clifton Suspension Bridge have joined swathes of people deserting Elon Musk's social media site X. Millions have instead joined ...