Newly unsealed documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens.

Parents worry about their children navigating today's digital world. The internet can be pretty scary, even dangerous, for both parents and children. These 10 ideas can help you.

The announcement is part of a broader push by countries to curb access to online platforms for minors. It also points to ...

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urges the protection of children from a "digital wild west." ...

Australia’s experiment is the first of its kind, but the evidence from alcohol, drug, and other bans is promising.

Spain will ban social media for under-16s and require platforms to employ strict age verification tools, joining Australia, France and Denmark in moves to curb the influence of digital platforms on ...

Australia has started implementing the world’s first social media ban for under-16s, after its government passed a measure that holds platforms including TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X ...

In the 2024–25 financial year alone, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received nearly 83,000 reports of ...

Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation.

University of Texas at Arlington Professor Dana Litt contributed to a study led by Alex Russell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, that found many parents turn to online peer advice when ...

(Corrects to delete reference to Operation Metaphile, paragraph 5, because that name was given to a later part of the ...

The negative impacts of social media to teens are fueling lawsuits, school bans and a worldwide debate on screen addiction ...