The law mandates parents to input their child’s age when a device is set up. Social media companies must show kids content ...

This column is the second in a series about young people and screens. Read the first post, about connected parenting, here. When I was in high school, I emailed the authors of the textbooks we used so ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Children's Social Media Safety Act, which is scheduled to implement stricter privacy ...

In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems “quality” children’s content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers and burying other channels.

A team of researchers has developed a high accuracy deep learning-based classifier designed to detect YouTube videos with disturbing content for kids. This was done after finding that the current ...

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Common Sense Networks, the for-profit arm of news media watchdog group Common Sense Media, launched its free ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attorneys general from 14 states are suing TikTok for harming children's mental health. Internal research accidentally revealed ...

In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems “quality” children's content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers and burying other channels.

Malik Ducard, YouTube’s global head of family and learning, likes to tell a story about the time the YouTube Kids app clicked for him personally. It was just before the app’s official launch in 2015, ...

When a call comes in to a Child Protective Services hotline, how should the government react? Is the complaint significant enough to merit an investigation? Should caseworkers be sent to the child’s ...