The world is watching as Australia experiments with a first-of-its-kind social media ban. The measure took effect earlier ...

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

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

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

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is facing new heat over claims that teenage Instagram users will be protected from online harm by a PG ...

"Australia's new restrictions will not solve all negative effects associated with social media," one expert told Newsweek.

Former Chicago mayor and potential 2028 presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel is calling for the United States to restrict social media access for children 16 and younger.

A 13-year-old boy displays a message on his mobile phone from social media platform Snapchat after his account was locked 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...