If you have pre-school-aged grandchildren, or kids in the first couple of years of primary school, it is almost certain that they will have watched YouTube this week. That is because YouTube – for ...

This trend is more complicated than “good or bad.” On one hand, sharing reels can feel like a modern form of bonding — a way to stay connected, laugh together, and speak the digital language today’s ...

Authors Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price join TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Willie Geist to talk about their ...

TikTok’s rise wasn’t driven by creators or followers, but by an aggressive AI-driven feed. Unlike other platforms, users don’t curate content — the algorithm does. ByteDance engineered a system that ...

The Australian government has banned kids and teens under 16 from using social media. Here’s what experts think about the ...

The Internet revolution has brought extraordinary benefits and fuelled rapid innovation. Yet alongside this progress came the rise of social media, a defining pillar of Web 2.0. This new era ...

I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

The company Wizz is coming under serious scrutiny by regulators and watchdogs for enabling child sexual predators on a huge ...

By limiting teens’ social media use, Australia hopes to reduce mental health harms. Would a similar step safeguard the mental ...

We can take action: Give kids basic flip phones to communicate; restrict social media before age 16; keep phones out of school and provide more unsupervised “free play” to develop self-governing ...

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.