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 ...

A team of researchers has developed a high accuracy deep learning-based classifier designed to detect YouTube videos with disturbing content for kids. This was done after finding that the current ...

Experts at Istanbul summit warn that shrinking attention spans and profit-driven digital content are reshaping how children ...

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 ...

When a call comes in to a Child Protective Services hotline, how should the government react? Is the complaint significant enough to merit an investigation? Should caseworkers be sent to the child’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A strange and unsettling thing was happening this morning on YouTube. If you typed the words "how to have" into the site's search bar, one of the suggested searches was "how to have s*x with kids." By ...

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 ...