After rolling back its election misinformation policy last year, YouTube allowed right-wing media figures to undermine confidence in the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast, with ...

In separate trial verdicts last week, juries found Meta and YouTube were liable for knowingly designing addictive products. Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute discusses ...

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating ...

A Los Angeles jury found Wednesday that Meta and Youtube are liable for negligence in having knowingly designed addictive and harmful products. The platforms were found to have deliberately targeted ...

PBS is expanding its already sizable YouTube footprint through a partnership with ITVS, the San Francisco–based producer of Independent Lens. The organizations have jointly launched PBS Documentaries, ...

A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found YouTube and Meta liable in a landmark trial over whether social media companies should be held accountable for fueling a mental health crisis among children.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services. The ...

Teacher Jill Anderson reads to her class. Concerned about effects on students, Anderson has removed most screen time from her classroom. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

“It’s terrifying,” Fong told me a couple of weeks before Howtown launched. “We’re not young kids with infinite energy and confidence. We are well into our 30s and know that most things probably fail, ...

On the set of a Curiosity Desk shoot with members of GBH News and GBH's Digital Content and Production teams (from L to R): Howard Powell, Joanie Tobin, Edgar B. Herwick III, Anny Guerzon, comedian ...

The White House says it's looking into how a YouTube creator's livestream appeared to take over a White House website. The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight ...