Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand teens’ experiences and attitudes around teen mental health and social media. Part of this study also examines parents’ perspectives. The Center ...

In January, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, appeared at a congressional hearing to answer questions about how social media potentially harms children. Zuckerberg opened by ...

It's not what many companies expected back in January when they were trying fresh starts. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had renamed his company Meta to signal a new big bet on the metaverse, an ...

From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies had a rocky 2022. Over the last year, Facebook burned through billions of ...

This post was co-authored by Kayla Maloney, Aditya Vasavan, and Megan Chesin. Social media are online platforms characterized by user-generated content and user interactivity. Ninety-seven percent of ...

In the early 2000s, social media was a baby. Cut to now: Statista (2023) predicts there should be around six billion social media users worldwide by 2027. While such rapid growth makes it difficult ...

Former President Donald Trump launched his social media platform, Truth Social, in early 2022, after he was banned from major sites, including Facebook and the former Twitter, following the January 6 ...

The media industry in 2022 grappled with economic uncertainty that lead to mass layoffs, shuttering of outlets, downsizing of newsrooms and the leaders of the industry working overtime to master the ...