Meta — the parent company of Instagram and Facebook — has been fueling what the U.S. surgeon general calls “a national youth mental health crisis.” Features like curated algorithms, infinite scrolling ...

In a bipartisan effort to “protect kids from harm,” an unlikely cohort of senators introduced a bill that would restrict minors' access to social media, as well as ban companies from using algorithms ...

If you’ve ever wondered why the content on your online feed seems like it was chosen specifically for you, you can thank an algorithm for that. An algorithm is a set of instructions that tells a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York lawmakers are trying to limit kids in the Empire State from being exposed to the “addictive” features of TikTok and other social sites without parental permission. The ...

Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that they even balk at the idea of searching the ...

When Lisa Yoder’s kids want to watch a movie, they look through the family’s DVD library or head to the library and pick DVDs to borrow. Yoder’s favorite part about letting her kids watch DVDs is that ...

Savvy algorithms are learning to drive our cars, to detect cancer faster and can already beat the world's best chess player. But there are concerns about whether or not the programmers building these ...