There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...

Increasing social media usage among children has been linked to a decline in cognitive performance. A JAMA study involving 6,554 adolescents aged 9–13 found that those who spent more time on social ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...

Increases in social media use during early adolescence were linked with lower performance scores measuring cognitive function. Differences were "modest but consistent" in key areas like reading, ...

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Roblox has unveiled a major new safety system that will use artificial intelligence to estimate the age of every user on the platform. CEO David Baszucki said the plan is to finish the rollout by the ...

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is hurting preteens' memory and reading skills. The new study, published Monday ...