What is 365 buttons? Everything you need to know about 2026’s first viral TikTok trend

2026 has its first viral TikTok trend: 365 buttons. Confused? We’re here for you. The 365 buttons craze started with a TikTok ...

What Is Going On With the 365 Buttons? Breaking Down TikTok’s Newest Viral Trend

TikTok trend, but it’s a little vague and confusing to some. A TikTok user named Tamara revealed in late 2025 that she plans ...
The Boston Globe

Social media needs a reset button

Mark Bartholomew is the vice dean for research at the University at Buffalo School of Law. Martin Skladany is a law professor at Penn State University. We yearn to remake ourselves each new year. The ...
Phys.org

How social media shapes tolerance and echo chambers

Open Facebook and the patterns are unmistakable. It can feel like almost every post that we see mirrors our own preferences. Friends and family sharing photos and stories echoing viewpoints you've ...
Reuters

From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access

SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday will become the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), ...
NBC News

Australia launches youth social media ban it says will be the world's 'first domino'

Can children and teenagers be forced off social media en masse? Australia is about to find out. More than 1 million social media accounts held by users under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia ...
New York Post

Facebook makes major change to Like and Comment buttons

Facebook doesn’t like this feature anymore. Meta is doing away with two of Facebook’s external social plugins at the beginning of next year, By February 10, 2026, the social media platform will ...
Mashable

RIP: external 'Like' buttons. Facebook sunsets a relic of the old internet.

Facebook is killing off two external social plugins, the FB Like button and the FB Comment button. Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages It's the end of a major ...
New York Magazine

7 Reasons to Think Social Media Has Peaked

The most contentious debate in tech and finance right now is whether or not the AI boom has turned into a bubble, and what the consequences might be if it has. (In addition to your more typical “yes” ...
The Verge

ICE is building a social media panopticon

The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. is a news writer who ...
NPR

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

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 ...