In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems "quality" children's content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers and burying other channels.

Instagram’s Reels video service is designed to show users streams of short videos on topics the system decides will interest them, such as sports, fashion or humor. The Meta Platforms-owned social app ...

Go Caboodle, a parent-controlled video platform, offers a safe alternative to YouTube Kids. Parents can create pre-screened ...

Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that they even balk at the idea of searching the ...

The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York lawmakers are trying to limit kids in the Empire State from being exposed to the “addictive” features of TikTok and other social sites without parental permission. The ...

Impressionable young boys playing video games on YouTube are fed algorithmic recommendations featuring graphic gun violence that include everything from instructions on amping up firepower to movie ...

In a bipartisan effort to “protect kids from harm,” an unlikely cohort of senators introduced a bill that would restrict minors’ access to social media, as well as ban companies from using algorithms ...

SEVEN CAN HELP YOU TAKE CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY INSIDE YOUR HOME. SUSIE FOGARTY WITH SMART GEN SOCIETY IS HERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT KIND OF CONTENT KIDS ARE WATCHING. THEY’RE EXPOSED TO SO MUCH. SO WHAT ...