Beauty creators and Redditors alike are trying to “hit pan” Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business Insider, and more ...

France is preparing to ban children under 15 from social media in a dramatic crackdown inspired by Australia's world-leading move to lock minors out of major online platforms. President Emmanuel ...

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In 2022, a man named Armin Mehdizadeh started a countdown from 1356 on a whiteboard. Every day, he posted a video erasing the number and replacing it with one number lower. Now, he's just days away ...

KSHB 41 reporter Tod Palmer covers sports business and eastern Jackson County. He learned of this story thanks to our Let's Talk event earlier this fall in Lee's Summit. Share your story idea with Tod ...

Most of us grew up with advice that went something like this: If you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all. Clint Cooper is the Free Press editor at the Chattanooga Times ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A group representing the U.S. travel and tourism industry warned Monday that a proposal to require millions of foreign visitors to provide social media handles used over ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, third from right, speaks to students and staff during a visit to St. John Paul II College in Canberra, Australia, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. Globally, this ...

Can children and teenagers be forced off social media en masse? Australia is about to find out. More than 1 million social media accounts held by users under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia ...

The national ban is the first of its kind in the world. Australia’s social media ban for children 16 and under officially went into effect at midnight local time on Dec. 10. Many child advocates and ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.

Children who spend a significant amount of time on social media tend to experience a gradual decline in their ability to concentrate. This is according to a comprehensive study from Karolinska ...