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In "The Anxious Generation," Jonathan Haidt delves into the digital world's toll on children's mental health, offering vital solutions.

‘Likability’ is hardly an objective measure – it’s a vague idea at best, mired in gendered, racialized and political connotations

Big survey of US parents on their attitudes towards their kids & the Internet shows that, while they think the Web has some pluses, overall it raises a lot of fears around Internet addiction, online bullying, violence & porn exposure.

The image shows a man's hand holding up a Palestinian flag with what looks to be a rose, framed by a sunset. "We are staring into the voidin the midst of an apocalypse rendered by our own bloody hands," reads the Instagram post.

Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general warns of an urgent public health issue regarding social media usage and youth mental health. In the new advisory, released Tuesday, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy calls for more research to determine the extent of mental health impacts on young people, including the type of content generating the most harm, societal factors that could protect youth and ways in which social media can be beneficial. "To date the burden of protecting youth has fallen predominantly on children, adolescents and their families," Murth...