In a potentially bellwether case, a plaintiff alleges that social media companies deliberately design their platforms to ...

States laid the groundwork for cellphone bans in the classroom — and now new federal efforts look to take that one step ...

The mothers of Brianna Ghey and Jools Roome say Ofcom needs to do more to protect young people.

The world's first social media ban for young people took effect in Australia in December 2025, prompting other countries, ...

The federal government will soon start investigating how artificial intelligence chatbots and other products affect children’s mental health and how tech companies are responding to the risks. The ...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are seizing on new revelations about “sensual” chatbot conversations Meta deemed acceptable for children, dragging the tech giant and its checkered past on ...

With the recent boom in artificial intelligence and photo editing capabilities, technology-facilitated child sexual abuse is ...

Doctors and medical experts have warned of the growing evidence of "health harms" from tech and devices on children and young ...

And while technology itself should not be seen as all bad or good, a deeper understanding of how children are watching, playing and doing things with digital tools is necessary. This article is ...

The United Kingdom’s online safety regulator announced Monday it was formally investigating X.

Valentina Fantasia receives funding from The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS). She is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive ...