#social-media-impact

#social-media-impact

For Northwestern University's 2025 news report, they estimated that almost 40% of all local U.S. newspapers have vanished, leaving 50 million Americans with limited or no access to a reliable source of local news. The local newspapers that haven't closed their doors have immensely reduced their operations, cutting the amount of reporters in the newsroom from hundreds to just dozens and working out of rented office spaces instead of downtown buildings.

AI-driven search is a big part of those challenges. As of October 2025, a full third of the 15 billion searches conducted on Google (or 5 million) triggered AI Overviews, Semrush president Eugene Levin told Digiday. At the same time, a significant percentage of publishers have said their traffic is decreasing. Well over half of publisher respondents to Digiday+ Research's fourth-quarter 2025 survey said they saw traffic declines last year: 54% said their traffic decreased somewhat or significantly throughout the year in 2025.

The 26-year-old son of Posh Spice, 51, and David Beckham claimed in a multi-part Instagram statement Monday that his mother hijacked my first dance with my wife, during which he said Victoria danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. The dance was deeply uncomfortable, and people did notice at the wedding, an insider told Us Weekly. The source claims that the fashion designer nuzzled on Brooklyn's neck in front of everyone and he made a face.

My mindset is always the same for every game and that's to kill and do whatever to win,

A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and golden hair seemingly full of air, executed in textures that contrast with the scratchy, loose marks that make up her shirt and the book's pages.

Like trees shedding tree bark or the ocean giving up on water, MTV will cancel Ridiculousness, a show that across 46 seasons and more than 1,700 episodes came to dominate MTV's programming. Launched in 2011 and hosted by Rob Dyrdek, Ridiculousness featured panel discussions about viral videos. As the show took over more and more of MTV's schedule, it became the poster child for how social media was eating the rest of culture,

"If we look back on the last 10, 15 years on social media, I think we'd be hard pressed to say that the velocity and the impact and the adverse effect of social media is equal to, or more than, the benefits that have occurred," he said. "And one of the reasons is the fact that there wasn't regulation, and the regulation that has come is too late." He said AI is progressing so fast and "the regulators are so far behind, they don't even know what the questions are because of the speed of this thing."

Each minute, millions of teens scroll through videos on social media platforms. These platforms are designed to connect people, but their overuse among young users is leading to serious, unintended consequences. The impact of social media on teen mental health has received significant media attention. After Facebook became available to American college students, their rates of depression rose by 7% and anxiety by 20%.

There was something about the internet of old. The leisurely, dial-up conjuring of a digital page via Netscape was certainly revolutionary, but to a seven-year-old me it was more; at once novel and expansively thrilling, it literally put the world at my young fingertips. Later, even when the paradigm shifted to high-speed, there was still a certain idealistic nascency to the web.

Breece Hall expressed frustration over being scapegoated for the Jets' underperformance last season, citing social media and media commentary as personally detrimental.

Many of my younger followers feel really lonely and say that they really don't have any friends at all. That shocked me a lot.

On Sunday (20 July), she took to social media to share "a message to the fans", saying she had "experienced a lot of racial abuse" from the start of the tournament in Switzerland.

The disturbing study highlighted the importance of work aimed at tackling school absences and exclusions, which contribute significantly to youth violence in London.

Canada's Competition Bureau is in an ongoing lawsuit against Rogers, alleging false advertising for their phone plans and claiming the company's "Infinite" plans actually had data speed limits. The school boards, organizing as Schools for Social Media Change, are hoping for damages to the tune of $8 billion from Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.