There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...

Social media is hurting kids' test scores: Study Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association found. October 14, ...

young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...

It might finally be time to set those parental controls. New research suggests that social media isn’t just feeding your kid the latest memes — it may actually be messing with their brainpower. The ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

To protect kids, companies with large amounts of young users must move beyond quick fixes and design digital spaces where safe gaming is built into the core. For today’s kids, the playground is not ...

Social media algorithms are designed to be addictive, especially for children, and can expose them to harmful content. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) aims to hold social media companies accountable ...

Recent revelations about how AI chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with long-standing concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and revitalizing efforts to pass ...

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) aims to protect children online but raises concerns about free speech and government overreach. KOSA empowers federal agencies to define appropriate online content, ...