SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Members of a group who help others leave polygamous communities have filed a lawsuit against Utah's new social media laws. Under the Social Media Regulation Act, Utah has ...
This story is jointly published by nonprofits Amplify Utah and The Salt Lake Tribune, in collaboration with Salt Lake Community College, to elevate diverse perspectives in local media through ...
The warnings from Haidt, Turkle, and others appear to have been influential in some political circles. Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, recently signed a bill banning children under fourteen ...
From state capitols to Washington, D.C., lawmakers are scrambling to come up with regulations that can protect kids from the potential harms of social media, since the platforms have been ...
Teenagers are increasingly using social media to self-diagnose their mental health issues, alarming parents and advocates who say actual care should be easier to access. A poll by EdWeek Research ...
When Peter Gray remarried and became a stepfather to two small children in the early aughts, he made a discovery that ...
A push by leading Democrats to restrict how social media companies use algorithms to serve content to children has been met by a high-stakes lobbying effort. By Jay Root and Grace Ashford ...
Mitchell Prinstein, chief science officer of the American Psychological Association (APA), knows that monitoring social media use is stressful for many parents. “It’s really tragic that ...
A Utah mother is fighting for her teenage daughter’s access to diabetes medicine. Ruby Smart, 15, has been taking Levemir (detemir) insulin since she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes more than ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts. Lawmakers on Friday gave final ...