Adonay Berhane, Wongelawit Gebre Endrias and four others are accused by police of undermining public morality.

Social media is helping more and more newcomers break through. This year, artists like Sombr and Alex Warren experienced this firsthand. But established stars also created viral hits in 2025.

It’s YouTube—by a wide margin. Social media has become inexorably intertwined with our daily lives, but not all platforms are equally popular. For every cultural phenomenon like TikTok, there’s a Mastodon.

Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.

Meet Noah Peters, known to over 2 million followers on TikTok as 'The Singing Barber' for his videos where he cuts hair as his clients sing

The 24-year-old daughter of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said that troubling messages with “real-life consequences” have led her to temporarily unplug from social media out of concern for her family’s safety.