In a pocket of spare time, you may reach for your phone to scroll social media - but how often do you end up spending more time here than you planned?

Social media is “designed to keep our eyes on it – in order to make us look at advertisements”, said Professor Robin Banerjee, who led the research. This means “we’ve got this very, very clear pattern ...

The inventor of the infinite scroll, Aza Raskin, testified in New Mexico, expressing regret over his creation.

A combination of war alerts, breaking news updates, and algorithmic feeds are trapping users in a threat-monitoring loop.

You can lose the battle but still win the war ...

The dominant narrative frames doomscrolling as a dopamine addiction or a willpower failure. Behavioral science suggests something more honest: your brain is seeking low-stakes unpredictability because ...

To fix it, go to Settings > Manage all history. I find the offending videos and remove them. When they’re gone from your history, the algorithm no longer uses them to suggest what’s next. If your feed ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that multiple studies have associated doomscrolling – compulsively consuming bad news and depressing ...