Congress could potentially pass the first major legislation related to children’s online safety since 1998, as the Kids Online Safety Act, sometimes referred to as KOSA, was reintroduced earlier this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After decades of inadequate digital safeguards, toothless federal regulation, and little legal recourse, American families may ...

Eight years ago, my son David died by suicide at 16. His death followed a yearlong battle with social media and online gaming addiction as well as months of intense and threatening cyberbullying that ...

Parents whose children have been seriously harmed or lost their lives due to social media have been let down by a key House panel’s advancement of a watered-down version of the Kids Online Safety Act, ...

Parent and student advocates hold signs of loved ones and messages to pass the initial Kids Online Safety Act in May. Credit: WebEx The Kids Online Safety Act cleared another hurdle this week with a ...

Bills that would seek to provide greater online protections for kids moved forward on both sides of Capitol Hill on Thursday, though a House measure was pulled back from a committee vote in a bid for ...

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Wes Hodges is the acting director of the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation. Imagine driving your kids through a city plastered with graphic, inappropriate billboards—images that assault ...

A view of the U.S. Capitol during a rally held in support of the Kids Online Safety Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec.10, 2024. Credit - Jemal Countess—Getty Images Congress could ...