A new bill in New York could change what kids see on social media. The legislation would restrict the use of algorithms for kids and prohibit notifications late at ...

Instagram’s Reels video service is designed to show users streams of short videos on topics the system decides will interest them, such as sports, fashion or humor. The Meta Platforms-owned social app ...

YouTube has already faced problems for allowing disturbing, violent bootleg content geared towards children to proliferate on the platform— alongside with popular creators and vloggers who potentially ...

TikTok utilizes an addictive, opaque recommendation algorithm that bombards vulnerable teen users with an “endless stream” of harmful content related to suicide, anxiety, and depression, concerned ...

Educators, parents and researchers agree social media is highly addicting, and if algorithm-based posts are not driving the mental health crisis plaguing kids, they're at least riding shotgun. But the ...

When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior ...