The risks students face online have heightened over the past decade, increasing awareness in the education system around the importance of children’s safe, responsible, and healthy technology use.

How much time should students spend on school devices? What does the school system block access to, and how is content filtered? The Carroll County Board of Education discussed these questions, and ...

The move follows sharp criticism from lawmakers and advocates in recent months. Popular social media platform TikTok on Wednesday announced plans for a rating system aimed at protecting young users ...

Earlier this year, TikTok said it was developing a new system that would restrict certain types of mature content from being viewed by teen users. Today, the company is introducing the first version ...

Tumblr is the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns that have gone haywire and raised the ire of users. In recent days, Tumblr users have complained their content is ...

Instagram will moderate the content for users under 18 using filters guided by the PG-13 movie rating system, the platform's parent company Meta announced on Tuesday in its latest effort to address ...

Can Meta keep younger users from seeing harmful content? It's unclear, though the company just rolled out new policies to that effect. Reading time 3 minutes Critics say that Meta has often caused ...

Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in a move founder Mark Zuckerberg said will make free speech a priority on its social media platforms — including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — and align the ...