The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 129-25 Wednesday night to pass legislation that would ban all children under age 14 from using social media in the state. Kids ages 14 and 15 would ...

Over the past several months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 14-year-old checks social media posts, as Greece is set to ban under-15s from social media in European crackdown, in Athens, ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

Two court verdicts this week spotlight the risks for teens from using social media — focusing on not just the content but the design of the platforms. On Wednesday a California jury held Google and ...

Australia’s world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for about three months. New data from a survey of 1,070 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Social media is here to stay. In the U.S., 95% of teens use at least one social media platform. And according to a 2023 ...

The move would split off the money-losing social media platform as the company pursues a merger with a fusion power company. By Stacy Cowley and Matthew Goldstein President Trump’s media company is ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing a statewide fee on social media companies in an effort to raise $200 million a year for education, as the state grapples with a $2 billion budget shortfall. The proposal ...

An internal research study at Meta dubbed “Project MYST” created in partnership with the University of Chicago, found that parental supervision and controls — such as time limits and restricted access ...

India is discussing age-based social media restrictions with social media companies, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday. Any crackdown in India, a country of 1.4 billion people, could have a ...