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Not only are the states seeking billions of dollars from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Just two percent of the 1,000 teenagers polled said they did not currently scroll on social media or watch short-form videos on school nights.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
I scroll through the portraits he’d emailed me: two women laughing, a family smiling, and my personal favorite, a pop-artish rendering of Gigi Hadid.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The guard took a scroll of paper from his waistband and tossed it to the stonecutter.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
From one collection point alone came more than 900 Torah scrolls and roughly 250,000 books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
On our Zoom call, Herberhold scrolls through the TikTok feed she uses as a shell account to study the Com network.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
On her phone, the lock screen still has a candid moment from their wedding, while in her gallery she scrolls back, further and further, to find Shubham again.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
A little later in our conversation, he pulls out his phone, scrolls for a second, then hits play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Dain’s desk, stuffed with scrolls and pens and sealing wax.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
"All it knows is that the person hasn't scrolled past."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Both were littered with sports events, which I scrolled past, but also had sections for elections, politics, tech and a lot more.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
For me, as I scrolled through them at night, as I thought about why I was so drawn to them, I realized: I am moved because they prove the thing I love is actually there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
As they scrolled through social media posts about the governor’s race, they found a cause to unite them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
She shook her head, scrolled quickly through her contacts, and made a call.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
It's late, you're scrolling on your phone and suddenly feel a strong urge to buy something - only to wake up the next day and regret it.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
This era of scrolling alone has, as Putnam halfway predicted, coincided with a rise in asocial extremism.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Medina herself discovered a restock of the Tags while scrolling TikTok and thinking about the product.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Sometimes it’s kind of nice to enter a meditative state and not be scrolling on my phone,” he observes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
I’d been scrolling around online for an hour looking for a dress for an event I had in a few weeks, and absolutely nothing looked right.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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