A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?

But even the lowest users of social media, kids who used it just a single hour a day or less, still scored lower, too, by an ...

Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025.

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 ...