Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and teaches parents, students and teachers how to manage screentime. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is ...

Australia’s online safety regulator is investigating Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok and YouTube for potentially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Australian government announced two weeks ago that the three Meta platforms plus Snapchat, TikTok, X and YouTube must take ...

Blowback to social media and its effects on young people are reverberating across the globe. Many countries have announced ...

Kids in Australia routinely use social media apps and can bypass the age limit restrictions set by these platforms, suggests a report by the country’s online safety regulator on Thursday. eSafety’s ...

Three months since Australia's landmark social media ban for under 16s, the country's internet watchdog is investigating five ...

A new law banning kids from prominent social media sites took effect in Australia on Wednesday, teeing up a key test of one of the most far-reaching approaches to protecting children online. The ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac ...

LOS ANGELES -- Imagine telling your teenage child that he or she couldn't use social media anymore. As terrifying as that sounds, Australia is doing it and many say the U.S. should do the same.

The interview with Julie Inman Grant is yet to start - she is not even in the room - when the conversation turns to the barrage of death and rape threats her office deals with on a weekly basis. The ...

DALLAS — Just weeks after a broad ban on social media accounts for kids under the age of 16 went into effect in Australia, officials say platforms have taken down almost 5 million accounts belonging ...