In 2024, a study published in JAMA Network revealed that reducing children’s leisure screen time to just three hours per week ...

In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...

My kids were angry with my no social media rule, but I don't want them to be exposed to the inherent dangers before they are ...

The recent decision by the Australian government to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s has been received with both ...

A Senate committee voted 10-1 Wednesday to approve legislation barring children less than 16 years old from accessing any social media outlets unless a parent explicitly consents to their child's use.

Mark Zuckerberg took a hard-right turn with Meta recently when he announced on Jan. 7 significant policy changes to Instagram and Facebook. The changes replace fact-checking teams with user-driven ...

Tech firms have been given a final deadline to introduce “robust” age checks to stop children accessing harmful ... young people aren’t accessing social media sites in the first place.

It can be a blessing to let our kids sit quietly with technology when ... with smartphones in their hands in a world of evolving social media. This is why we're asking you, the readers, parents ...

Of course, the main panic today is about kids and smartphones, especially kids’ uses of social media on smartphones. That fear, too, will fade before long, and fear of some not-yet-invented ...

Now, this state law, known as the social media law, aims to keep children off social media platforms for their safety. More specifically, kids under 14 years old. The law would prevent them from ...