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 European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app to be “addictive,” calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and push notifications, as well as its ...

European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children. By Adam Satariano Reporting from London TikTok’s endless ...

BRUSSELS — Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way. The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design ...

European Union (EU) regulators are seeking to ban the most addictive features of the TikTok video platform, pushing the company to clamp down on “infinite scrolling” keeping people hooked on the app ...

The European Commission, the EU's executive body, has made a preliminary ruling that TikTok's algorithms, infinite scrolling, autoplay, and other features have a negative impact on the mental and ...

The end of doomscrolling is nigh. Or at least, for the first time in a long time, it feels like someone in power has actually looked at our collective glazed eyes, and our reduced attention spans and ...

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

"At this stage, the Commission considers that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...