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Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned during a press briefing that he is concerned about American tourists being arrested for old social media posts. Since the inauguration, one of the key foreign ...

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You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Let’s say, for the sake of the following discussion, that we agree on the following: Teen-agers have First ...

Just in time for the holidays, Australian youth under 16 unwrapped a ban on social media. A new law requires ten of the world’s most prominent social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, ...

At the advent of Facebook in 2004, you had to have a college email address to create an account. Mark Zuckerberg’s creation was a relatively controlled, college-age environment in which you could ...

Australia made history when it enacted a ban on social media for children under 16 last week. But although the laws have drawn praise and criticism from different corners of the public, their efficacy ...

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A third-grade teacher gently reprimanded her class during a social studies lesson 41 years ago inside a small Catholic school in Ocean City, New Jersey. We had our social studies books out, and were ...

The Pew Research Center has found that a majority of teens use YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. And, for the first time, researchers asked teens about their use of artificial intelligence ...

Australia’s under-16 social media ban took effect Wednesday.Getty Images Australia’s nationwide ban on social media use for children under 16 took effect on Wednesday, creating a global test case for ...

This week, Australia became the first country to ban children under the age of 16 from using most social-media platforms. Many teenagers in the country are furious, but for social scientists, the ...