This stage of life, which should be full of opportunity, has become a period of uncertainty and struggle. Heightened mental health awareness, social media–driven anxiety, and poorer economic prospects than previous generations make it harder to plan a future. How can we turn things around?
The US subsidiary of the popular service, controlled by business figures close to Trump, is the final major platform to be drawn into the White House’s orbit
The former Greek finance minister warns of the dangers of what he calls cloud capital, the driving force behind technofeudalism
When she started modeling, she was told her career would be over at 18. Today, at 77, she’s still going strong and embodies a new standard of mature, real beauty. She’s also the mother of Elon Musk, the feared Silicon Valley mogul. To her, he’s just her son. ‘He’s very sweet, very good,’ she says
Figures like the late Charlie Kirk and Jake and Logan Paul have something in common: they all support the Republican’s narrative and have pushed the digital conversation in his favor
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed concern about the content created by bots, which facilitate misinformation
The Austrian activist who won data protection guarantees for Europeans believes the EU must achieve true digital autonomy
The measure, which carries no penalties for noncompliance, is aimed at preventing ‘excessive use of devices that cause physical and mental health problems’
Humanity is once again a laboratory for big tech, which deploys uncontrolled, unreliable tools that are already part of the daily lives of billions of people around the world
Shooting has begun for part two of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, due out in 2026, and thousands of social media posts are already in circulation, drawing interest but also criticism because of all the spoilers
This week, Rome welcomes 1,000 creators of religious content on social media. They are attending a Jubilee on July 28 and 29, part of a Holy Year that focuses on the digital environment
The Spanish ‘online hunter’ Isidoro Román Cuesta has revealed the real names behind more than 20 right-wing accounts on X
ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation
Novo Nordisk’s campaign, which aims to speak ‘without filters’ by declaring obesity a disease, has been strongly criticized on social media: ‘It’s indecent’
The billionaire and the president of the United States publicly clashed on social media: a feud many predicted, but few imagined would be so explosive
A state-run social media network could become an alternative to Twitter or Facebook, but it could also pose a risk to our privacy and freedom
A new study analyzed the behavior of young individuals who are highly dependent on online content
Political consultant Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí presents this space, in which he analyzes for EL PAÍS the political communications of the president of the United States in his second term in office
The most vocal of the tycoon’s 14 children has given a couple of interviews where she says she has not spoken to Donald Trump’s right-hand man, or received his financial support, for five years
In a world that is hyper-connected in the digital sphere, yet isolated when it comes to real life, Latino culture can offer vital inspiration
Political consultant Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí presents the ‘Trump Observatory,’ a space in which he analyzes Donald Trump’s political communication during his second presidential term for EL PAÍS. In this first installment, the ‘flooding the zone’ strategy
The rise of Status AI, an app for interacting with AI-generated characters, is the latest example of a rapidly growing phenomenon that has yet to be fully studied
The turbulent politics of the White House are setting the stage for instability, fueled by the spread of questionable information on social media
Critics say Elon Musk and Donald Trump are the high ‘priests’ of this phenomenon, warning that the unchecked use of AI could make the end of informed societies
Closed online communities and platforms offer us an accessible, aspirational, and increasingly cloned universe. And, following the dictates of ‘likes,’ algorithms erase differences and identities and transform us into passive users. Are we losing our personality?
One in 20 people develops a mild form of depression called SAD during prolonged adverse weather events
If we want to preserve democracy as a conversation based on shared facts, we must build a digital environment in which that conversation is possible. And the US is not the model. On the contrary, it is time to tell the emperor that he is naked
