On the Wednesday, June 17, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Governments are trying to figure out how to protect children online, as concerns grow over social media, mental health, addictive ...

The UK government’s proposed ban on social media for under-16s has an obvious appeal. Parents are worried, children are spending increasing amounts of time online and social media companies seem ...

Labour MP Josh Dean, one of the UK's youngest MPs, has said the government’s ban on social media for under-16s is going to “create more problems” for young people rather than making them safer. The MP ...

Mo Dezyanian is president of Empathy Inc. The Canadian government is planning to ban social media for children under age 16. It’s no secret that the previous Liberal government had an acrimonious ...

A wave of U.S. states is considering overhauls to gambling laws and updating regulations meant to protect consumers who exhibit signs of problem gambling. Media outlets have picked up on a particular ...

Edi Rama’s public exchanges with Reporters Without Borders, RSF, over its latest Freedom Index are part of a familiar pattern of redirecting attention away from real problems in society, experts say.

Bans on social media for minors are having a political moment. Parents’ sincere concerns and politicians’ instincts to capitalize on those fears are driving federal and state legislation like the kind ...

Bans on social media for minors are having a political moment. Parents’ sincere concerns and politicians’ instincts to capitalize on those fears are driving federal and state legislation like the kind ...

Bans on social media for minors are having a political moment. Parents’ sincere concerns and politicians’ instincts to capitalize on those fears are driving federal and state legislation like the kind ...

But by the end of 2025, the app’s user base took a nosedive. About 40% fewer active users were reportedly posting to Bluesky, and today the number continues to flatten (if not decline). Once lauded as ...