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Louise Casey may have the power of words behind her (The blistering speech that tells me Britain’s social care deadlock can finally be broken, 10 March),…

No government in my lifetime has been dealt a worse hand than Keir Starmer’s. Austerity-broken public services, an empty Treasury, a jittery bond market freaked out…

Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, its communication and digital affairs minister said on Friday.Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said…

Mumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets.The deliberately…

Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else

In many ways, it looks like any other primary school. There is a library, a cafeteria, classrooms, and a noticeboard celebrating the star of the week.…

A 16-year-old boy and his mum went to see their GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, on a busy Monday afternoon. That weekend, the boy had been at…

February 13, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAlgorithms really do create political polarization—and this AI tool let users avoid itResearchers used a browser extension…

Science has not yet settled whether an all-consuming social-media habit qualifies as a true addiction. Credit: Paul Hanna/AFP/GettyIs social media addictive to young people? A jury…

Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the past two decades, online recruitment platforms — such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Prolific, Cloud Research’s Prime Panels…