Sharing anecdotes is not misinformation, but it can produce miscalibration, making to harder to make sense of the facts, writes Catherine De Soto.

Social platforms are rapidly filling up with low-quality content created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), which ...

Questions are being asked about the ethics of "sharenting" - parents sharing their children's lives on social media.

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 23, 2010 file photo, the Google logo displayed at the Google headquarters in Brussels. The European Union's competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42 billion euro ...

Teach Us Consent chief executive Chanel Contos said an algorithm opt-in would “keep the momentum going” in the wake of the federal government’s world-first social media ban for children aged under 16, ...

If you have pre-school-aged grandchildren, or kids in the first couple of years of primary school, it is almost certain that they will have watched YouTube this week. That is because YouTube – for ...

Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz advocates for banning smartphones in Jewish schools until senior year. She argues that constant exposure to graphic Gaza images traumatizes children and hinders ...

Social media algorithms are pushing unsolicited pornographic content into children’s feeds, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner. The data was collected prior to the implementation of ...

In four days, a video published by a Brazilian influencer at the beginning of August reached over 26 million views, became a topic of discussion online and offline, and brought a new angle to the ...

Aim: We aimed to develop and internally validate a machine learning (ML)-based model for the prediction of the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in children with obesity. Methods: In total, 292 ...