Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular ...
A group of 41 US states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit last week against Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger – contending that the company knowingly ...
Trying to prevent access to social media once youngsters reach 15 or 16 actually makes addiction worse, psychologists from the Netherlands discovered.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The term "attention economy" describes the business model of companies that offer their goods or services for free but profit from selling user data, extracted from attention, to third parties and ...