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 ...

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 ...

Excessive use of social media is creating a generation of “broken people”, according to a prominent consultant psychiatrist. Prof Matthew Sadlier said there had been five-fold increase in cases of ...

Addiction to social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter has become an official condition with London clinics treating hundreds of sufferers a year. Many clinics across the UK are treating ...

Young adult "night owls" (or "evening types"—those who prefer to stay up late) are significantly more at risk of developing problematic relationships with smartphones and social media, according to a ...

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