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Not only are the states seeking upwards of $1 trillion, external from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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
When it came to Traveler, the last Grandma had heard was that he’d told me about submitting our texts to my scroll.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
British heavyweight Moses Itauma pulls out his phone and scrolls through his pictures.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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
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
"It's the first time that he is wearing tefillin", Bandel said enthusiastically, referring to the small black leather boxes containing Torah scrolls.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
He chose one of the scrolls before him, took up his brush, and began writing.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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
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
Her voice broke as she scrolled through dozens of photos and videos on her phone.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
In the hours after he was re-elected, councillor Shazad Fazal scrolled through the messages he had been sent on Facebook.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Coal scrolled through the files, but angry tears blurred his vision.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Dish, who now works as a financial planner, says she would buy "pretty much anything that was trending" but her biggest vice was scrolling on shopping apps to pass the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Charting the trajectory of a comedy career is about more than just seeing a comic crush in front of a few crowds or glibly scrolling through their TikTok clips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Once while scrolling, she stopped to admire pictures of a garden on her feed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
This era of scrolling alone has, as Putnam halfway predicted, coincided with a rise in asocial extremism.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Nick takes my phone and starts scrolling through the videos.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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