NPR's Don Gonyea talks with reporter Lauren Feiner at The Verge about the updated Kids Online Safety Act. It has strong bipartisan Senate support, but critics worry about privacy and censorship. How ...

Kristin Bride lost her 16-year-old son, Carson, to suicide in 2020. She says shortly before he took his own life he was bullied on the social media site Snapchat. "Carson received over 100 harassing ...

A group of leading major technology companies including OpenAI and Discord have raised more than $27 million for a new initiative focused on building open-source tools to boost online safety for kids.

If your kids, tweens or teens are old enough to carry their own phones, it may be time to upgrade to a tracking app (and not just for Halloween). These lightweight apps avoid being invasive but still ...

But the hearing ultimately left a huge question unanswered. A group of the nation's top social media executives faced intense questioning from a united Senate committee on Wednesday about the mental ...