Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?

Lawyers in a US court argue Meta and Google designed features like infinite scrolling and autoplay to maximise engagement, raising concerns that such design choices may contribute to addictive social ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – The State of New Mexico’s trial against Meta is now in its second week. Monday’s testimony focused on the impact of infinite scrolling on teens. On Monday, the courtroom heard about ...

The American Psychological Association (APA) issued a report Tuesday criticizing how social media is designed in a way that jeopardizes the youth's mental health. More than half of teenagers are ...

YouTube is testing infinite scroll for long-form videos. This change, spotted in the YouTube app, could alter or even destroy an important gesture navigation for smartphone users. YouTube is by far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Social media app TikTok has been accused of purposefully designing its app to be “addictive” by the ...

It's easy to go down the social media rabbit hole -- scrolling, clicking as time slips away. Could it be that it's not entirely our fault? One senator thinks we're falling victim to what he calls ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The inventor of the infinite scroll, Aza Raskin, testified in New Mexico, expressing regret over his creation, which traps users in endless scrolling. Raskin explained that ...

The creator of infinite vertical scrolling in social media, [Aza Raskin], infamously regrets his creation that has helped to waste a tremendous amount of human attention and time on the Internet. But ...

The creator of infinite vertical scrolling in social media, [Aza Raskin], infamously regrets his creation that has helped to waste a tremendous amount of human attention and time on the Internet. But ...

Isaac Gemal created WikiTok, an infinite scrolling Wikipedia, when a viral tweet triggered demand for its creation. He says he resisted adding algorithms to WikiTok to help people explore the internet ...