Earlier this year, researchers at UNC’s Winston Center for Technology and Developing Minds established a new initiative to investigate how technology is “rewiring” the brains of developing youth ...

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Big tech companies argue their platforms are communication tools not traps, and that addiction is a mischaracterisation of high engagement.

My main point here is that people are not making the choice for better health because of the addictive features built into the technology. Rather than simply blaming the end-user, we should hold the ...

Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people ...

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular when a person cannot stop these behaviors despite experiencing negative ...

Meta executives took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this month and testified that while use of the company’s platforms could become problematic, it couldn’t be considered addiction.

In a potentially bellwether case, a plaintiff alleges that social media companies deliberately design their platforms to target children.

One of the things that Wade L. Robinson discusses in his book, Engineering Ethics, is the importance of avoiding “error-provocative” designs, in which the technological artifact not only allows for ...