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

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 ...

The researchers, the New York Times reports, find that the same tenets that reward extremism also happen with sexual content on YouTube: A user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of ...

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 ...

Educators, parents and researchers agree social media is highly addicting, and if algorithm-based posts are not driving the mental health crisis plaguing kids, they're at least riding shotgun. But the ...

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 ...

Chase Nasca, 16, took his life two years ago by stepping in front of a moving train. His parents and many others suspect TikTok drove him to suicide by bombarding him with more than 1,000 unsolicited, ...

YouTube demystifies the Shorts algorithm in a Q&A video that addresses several of the most common questions creators have about gaining visibility with short-form content. We know at least some ...

A new bill in New York could change what kids see on social media. The legislation would restrict the use of algorithms for kids and prohibit notifications late at ...