Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. The negative mental health effects of social media on kids ...

The city of Boston has joined a nationwide lawsuit against Meta and other social media companies, echoing claims that the ...

The United Arab Emirates has moved to tighten online safety measures for children, mandating social media platforms to deploy ...

The internet has been transformed by social media, and the many platforms are now critical to how we communicate online. The ...

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 ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube collectively derived nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from U.S.-based users younger than 18 in ...

Children under the age of 16 have been prevented from 10 key social media platforms in Australia since December 2025.

SnapInsta today announced a set of ongoing platform improvements intended to simplify the process of saving publicly accessible media from supported social platforms through a browser-based experience ...

Today, trust in popular platforms is diminishing, organic reach is haphazard and hard to predict, and user behavior is growing more difficult to discern than ever before. At the same time, a steady ...