A steady stream of overnight social media notifications can disrupt a teenager’s sleep and lead to depression, lower cognition, and suicidal tendencies, according to research led by Jason Nagata, M.D.

DES MOINES, Iowa– The CEO of a national nonprofit focused on social media safety says a substantial amount of work still needs to be done to protect the millions of children who are online. Marc ...

Australia's under-16 social media restrictions remain popular with adults, but early research found widespread teen ...

Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children’s attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education. By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Jennifer Valentino-DeVries ...

When the UK government announced this week that it would ban children under 16 from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X, Zak Ringelstein wasn’t surprised. He was ready. That’s because Ringelstein is the ...

California's AB 1709 bans autoplay and personalized social media feeds for users under 16 and one Bakersfield family tells ...

John Doe was around 13 years old when he was tricked, blackmailed and threatened by sex traffickers on Snapchat into taking nude photos and videos of himself. Two years later, he learned from his high ...

An EU-wide law to "enhance the online safety of children" is coming.

Parenthood has always been fraught with worry and guilt, but parents in the age of social media have increasingly confronted a distinctly acute kind of powerlessness. Their kids are unwitting subjects ...

Meta settled its child safety case. Now comes the hard part of actually implementing changes to its social media platforms. Here's what to expect.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The EU wants to ban social media for children under 13, and curb access to minors aged 13 and 14 (Martin LELIEVRE) The EU laid out ...