With children increasingly glued to their cell phones, state legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with ...

TikTok is now majority owned by non-Chinese stakeholders and has an American majority board — and it’s time for them to prove ...

French President Emmanuel Macron pushes lawmakers to ban social media for kids under 15, saying children's emotions won't be ...

Aarush Santoshi struggled for words when a preteen boy approached him on a New Jersey street, shoved a phone in his face and asked: “What are your thoughts on Andrew Tate?” The kid’s smirk and the ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed landmark legislation Thursday barring social media companies from bombarding children with “addictive” feeds — something she said was the first step in a new push to ...

Educators, parents and researchers agree social media is highly addicting, and if algorithm-based posts are not driving the mental health crisis plaguing kids, they're at least riding shotgun. But the ...

New York’s Legislature passed a bill on Friday that would ban social media platforms from using "addictive" recommendation algorithms for child users. It’s expected that Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign ...

From TikTok, to Facebook, to Instagram, there is no shortage of access to social media.

Social media companies design their feeds to be as gripping as possible, with complicated algorithms shuffling posts and ads into a never-ending stream of entertainment. A new California law would ...

The guidance was released by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Chase Nasca, 16, took his life two years ago by stepping in front of a moving train. His parents and many others suspect TikTok drove him to suicide by bombarding him with more than 1,000 unsolicited, ...