We’ve all seen it. You buy them a book—maybe a classic you loved or a new bestseller—and it just sits there, collecting dust ...

Come see Planet Money live on stage! 12 cities. Details and tix here: planetmoneybook.com We practically live on our phones these days. Scrolling and scrolling, endlessly. Entrepreneur Aza Raskin is ...

And the law will target autoplay, when a video on YouTube starts before you’ve decided to watch it. The forthcoming act, tabled by Commissioner Michael McGrath, addresses the ways tech firms ...

The creator of infinite vertical scrolling in social media, [Aza Raskin], infamously regrets his creation that has helped to waste a tremendous amount of human attention and time on the Internet. But ...

The American Psychological Association (APA) issued a report Tuesday criticizing how social media is designed in a way that jeopardizes the youth's mental health. More than half of teenagers are ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – The State of New Mexico’s trial against Meta is now in its second week. Monday’s testimony focused on the impact of infinite scrolling on teens. On Monday, the courtroom heard about ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Instagram, TikTok, and other social media platforms in late March 2026 that his government will “have to act” against features he says are engineered to keep ...

Isaac Gemal created WikiTok, an infinite scrolling Wikipedia, when a viral tweet triggered demand for its creation. He says he resisted adding algorithms to WikiTok to help people explore the internet ...

It's called the infinite scroll—a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that continuously loads content as you reach the bottom of the page. Handy? Yes. Clever? Also yes.

What if the next time you doom-scrolled through Instagram, X or TikTok, you reached an end point? It's hard to imagine. The ...