Rebecca Ruiz

Rebecca Ruiz

Senior Reporter

Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation and mindfulness. Rebecca's experience prior to Mashable includes working as a staff writer, reporter, and editor at NBC News Digital and as a staff writer at Forbes. Rebecca has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

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TikTok logo on a phone, against a gray background.
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Social media use may cause depression among young people, new study finds
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Teens sit in a row looking at their phones.
AI has entered the therapy session — and it's recording you
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A female therapist talks to a woman sitting on a couch. A phone is on the table.
Waymo voluntarily recalled 1,200 robotaxis
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Waymo car drives in San Francisco.
Sleep products for kids: Do they really help?
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A girl reads underneath a bedroom tent, in a composite image.
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A teen boy looks down at his phone.
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AI companions unsafe for teens under 18, researchers say
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A tween or teen boy looks at a computer screen in a darkened room.
Chronically online drivers are scarily distracted, survey says
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A man drives while looking at his cell phone.
Report: 1 in 7 teens exchange explicit images online for money or goods
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Sitting in her bedroom, a teen girl looks down at her phone.
Instagram will use AI to identify teens using adult accounts
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Screenshots of Instagram notifications about teen settings.
Finding a therapist can be hard. 'Ghost networks' make the problem worse.
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Composite photo of man sitting on chair, with outline of a therapist sitting in the background.
'White Lotus' Season 3 was a disaster. Here's why.
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'White Lotus' actor Jason Isaacs in a scene from the third season.
How to emotionally recover after being scammed
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Woman sits in front of people listening empathetically.
Former White House AI chief: Here's how to protect kids from harm
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Bruce Reed in profile.
When the urge to gamble strikes, try mindfulness
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A man is surrounded by visual prompts to gamble.
How Xbox president Sarah Bond became a major player in gaming
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Sarah Bond is president of Xbox.
Character.AI launches parental supervision feature
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Character.AI logo on a phone
Instagram working with schools to take action against bullying, gossip accounts
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Examples of Instagram's school bullying report program.
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