TikTok’s rise wasn’t driven by creators or followers, but by an aggressive AI-driven feed. Unlike other platforms, users don’t curate content — the algorithm does. ByteDance engineered a system that ...

Today’s children grow up surrounded by AI-driven apps, social media, and online content. Understanding how to spot ...

TikTok announced a deal to sell its U.S. assets to a group of three companies. One of them was co-founded by this Florida billionaire.

I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Authors Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price join TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Willie Geist to talk about their ...

It’s the most wonderful time of year, and we at Defector are proud to bring back our series discussing some of the most, uh, ...

A quality improvement initiative improved rates of lipid screening among children and adolescents and may improve downstream ...

A new movement is sweeping the UK after 165,000 people signed a 'parent pact' to delay giving kids smartphones with five top ...

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

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 ...

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

A Pew Research Center study shows approximately 20% of teenagers report social media has damaged their mental health. Interacting with online platforms (this includes video games and chats, too) can ...