A happy toddler boy sits in his mother' lap as a pediatrician leans over with a stethascope to listen to the child's heart. A new algorithm helped doctors in Tanzania cut back on kids' antibiotics ...

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 ...

Attorneys general from 14 states are suing TikTok for harming children's mental health. Internal research accidentally revealed this week indicates TikTok knew its algorithm was harmful. Lawyers for ...

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Common Sense Networks, the for-profit arm of news media watchdog group Common Sense Media, launched its free ...

Instagram’s algorithm serves videos to adults who they think might have a prurient interest in children, according to an investigation conducted by the Wall Street Journal. The social media app, which ...

It’s no secret that algorithms are incredibly problematic, leading to everything from racist policing to sexist hiring. But even for adults who are extremely online, it can be hard to understand what ...

This column is the second in a series about young people and screens. Read the first post, about connected parenting, here. When I was in high school, I emailed the authors of the textbooks we used so ...

An algorithm reduced rates of antibiotics use in kids treated at Tanzanian primary care facilities without compromising their chances of getting better. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...