NEW YORK (PIX11) – A new proposal from New York Attorney General Letitia James is hoping to put some guardrails on kids’ use of social media. Muna Heaven, from Mothers Against Media Addiction, talks ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Do they realize that showing sorted content is an algorithm? So "show me popular, top-rated, or most recent content" are all "algorithms." ... the wording seems about ...

Payers aiming to cut healthcare costs by using a diagnosis claims-based algorithm to determine whether pediatric patients need to be taken to emergency departments risk billing Black and Hispanic ...

In a bipartisan effort to “protect kids from harm,” an unlikely cohort of senators introduced a bill that would restrict minors’ access to social media, as well as ban companies from using algorithms ...

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 ...

As the New York state legislative session draws to a close, a new Siena College poll finds support for several items before the Senate and Assembly, including protecting children from harmful ...