At the heart of the lawsuit is the allegation that social media companies engineered their platforms to keep young users ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl, at a Wednesday hearing, told lawyers she tentatively planned to allow the ...

Boston is suing major social media companies, saying addictive platform features worsened student mental health and strained ...

The lawsuit alleges that addictive design features deliberately target minors and harms children’s mental health.

A team of software testers found that platforms did not ask for age proof on any of the 50 accounts it opened after the law ...

Australia's online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a ...

Testers who helped design Australia's age-check regime opened 50 accounts declaring the age of 16. Nine of 10 platforms never asked for proof.

Court documents allege a Carmel man posed as a teen on Snapchat and tried to get minors to send nudes; he’s jailed awaiting a ...

A Carmel man was recently arrested after officials allege he was attempting to convince a child to send him nude photographs ...

Child safety features on the most popular social media apps often don’t work as advertised, a new report found.

Snapchat's new Snap Specs offer multiplayer AR experiences and electrochromic dimming, but the $2,195 price tag limits ...

How to keep children safe on social media has become a hot-button issue - and new research suggesting many online safety ...