Is TikTok safer to use now that its U.S. operation is moving under an American ownership group? Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson ...

Why Indian states trying to ban social media for children below 16 are relying on blunt, hard-to-enforce access restrictions.

Australia has banned social media for kids under 16. A U.S. parent and public health leader explains why bans may miss the real risks—and what may work better.

​ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations ...

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European countries such as the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Finland, and Germany are considering restrictions on children’s social media. View on euronews ...

Age verification requirements have rapidly moved from a niche policy concept to a central feature of the U.S. regulatory ...

US politicians — both Republican and Democrat — had worried TikTok's Chinese ownership could mean American user data was ...

The case against a social media ban seems to rest on two claims: that children will find ways around it and that the focus ...

Ireland’s media regulator is hopeful it will “soon” have increased powers to initiate investigations into online platforms ...

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm” — and total dependency: Those are the “serious emotional harms” a family claims affected their daughter, identified only as KGM, in a bombshell lawsuit filed in 2023 ...

In September, Trump announced a deal: ByteDance would sell its U.S. operations to a new group of investors in a deal valued at roughly $14 billion (according to Vice President JD Vance), surprisingly ...