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‘My social life completely plummeted’

Cross-cultural modeling of body satisfaction using social media selfies and self-descriptions

Perceived algorithmic recommendation features and information fatigue among social media users

Social Media Bans Aren’t Enough to Make Children Safe

Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like.

Correcting social norm misperceptions to counter online vaccine misinformation during pandemics

A newly verified research paper examines whether correcting social norm misperceptions to counter online vaccine misinformation during pandemics.

Why video calls drain social attention faster than rooms do

Back-to-back video days often feel heavier than rooms. A theoretical account names the load. It is not a universal law of the medium.

Too tired to be judged by humans?

Across four experiments, greater social jet lag was linked to stronger preference for AI evaluators, largely through social anxiety — and the effect depended on whether AI was framed as neutral.

What makes a political deepfake believable enough to share?

A new study examines how plausibility, media literacy and prior attitudes relate to detection, liking and intentions to share political deepfakes on social media.

What age gates can — and cannot — fix about social media

Australia’s under-16 restrictions are reducing account ownership for some young users, but workarounds and privacy trade-offs show why prohibition alone cannot solve the design problem.

When the attention economy becomes a child-safety problem

A documentary follows Kristin Bride’s campaign after her son’s death, placing cyberbullying, persuasive platform design and the business model of attention inside the same child-safety argument.

Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election

IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

Clinical trials look different on Bluesky and X

An exploratory comparison of more than 14,000 public posts found markedly different communication patterns across the two platforms — a reminder that the medium can shape how medical research reaches people.

Empathy at scale: what chatbots cannot borrow

Language models can produce caring sentences. Empathy, in the human literature, is not only sentences.

When seeing is no longer enough

As synthetic audio and video fool casual viewers, trust becomes a practised skill — not a default of perception.

The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

Kinky dating app Feeld’s founders share in record £3.8m dividend after sales jump

Can machine learning spot student distress in wartime?

A study of 225 university students in Lebanon tested whether machine-learning models could identify depression, anxiety and stress during the 2024 war — with promising internal performance and a clear need for independent validation.

The classroom without a pocket

Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.

Habit is not a feature — it is a capture strategy

Product teams celebrate retention. Psychologists study habit. When those languages blur, design starts optimising for compulsion while calling it care.

When the machine becomes company

Always-available agents do not only answer questions. They enter the attachment system — quietly changing who we reach for first when the mind will not settle.