British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday that the UK will ban social media for under-16s, claiming that the planned measures will go “further than any country in the world” to protect ...

Project 2029, a liberal group working on the policy agenda for a potential Democratic nominee in the 2028 Presidential ...

A new Pew Research Center survey has found that 56 percent of Americans support banning social media for anyone under 16, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. The negative mental health effects of social media on kids ...

There’s no denying that social media can be a dangerous place for kids. As a parenting editor, I see stories every day about kids who are negatively influenced or even physically or mentally harmed in ...

Across major demographic and partisan groups, more Americans support than oppose banning those under 16 from using social ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

Six months after Australia became the first country to implement a wide-ranging ban on social media for kids, the ban has ...

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes to have a ban on kids using social media that is "designed to be addictive" enacted by early next year.

It's problematic enough that some kids are sending nude photos of themselves to friends and even online strangers. But artificial intelligence has elevated the problem to a whole new level. About 1 in ...

Kids receive so much input today from texting, social media, and the internet, that they may not spend a lot of time thinking about their goals or their futures. After all, it’s tough to contemplate ...

If courts want to reduce harm, they must focus on product design choices, measurable safety outcomes, and governance, write Peter Chapman, Ravi Iyer, and Meetali Jain.