Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) are demanding that Facebook explain how and why its Instagram platform promotes posts glorifying eating disorders to teenagers and young girls.
A 47-year-old mom from California has been arrested and charged for allegedly hosting a series of drunken sex parties for underage teenagers.
Jeff Horwitz, a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal, claimed in a recent interview that tech giant Facebook is blaming its own researchers for recent negative press relating to internal company studies.
According to a recent report from VICE News, despite recent backlash over the effect of Instagram on the mental health of teen users, the Facebook-owned platform continues to promote eating disorders and diet pills to its users.
A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that Facebook’s attempts to attract younger users to its platforms go beyond the company’s recently abandoned “Instagram for Kids” project. Leaked documents reportedly show that the company formed a team to study preteens and set a three-year goal to develop more products for them.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated in a recent interview that she believes that the Google-owned video platform is actually beneficial to the mental health of its teenage users. Her statement comes in the wake of leaked Facebook internal documents showing the company has research on the toxic impact of its Instagram platform on teen girls.
Facebook has responded to a recent series of reports from the Wall Street Journal containing leaked internal documents that show that Instagram often has a negative effect on the mental health of its teenage users and is particularly toxic for teen girls.
The Chinese version of TikTok, an app called Douyin, is reportedly introducing a “teenage mode” that will limit the amount of time children below the age of 14 are allowed to spend on the video app to 40 minutes a day.
According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, social media giant Facebook is aware that its Instagram photo-sharing platform can have a negative effect on the body image of young women. One of Instagram’s internal presentations admits: “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.”
Video shows the moment a mob of teenagers attacked an off-duty New York City firefighter in Queens, the New York Post reported Saturday.
Friends celebrating a birthday while visiting the Jersey Shore experienced something they will not forget any time soon when a seagull hit one girl in the chest.
Police are searching for a man who allegedly fired a gun at a 16-year-old on a Queens sidewalk Sunday, hitting him in the leg.
Former TikTok employees have recently claimed that there is cause for concern about the megapopular app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance and the tight control it holds over the social media platform.
Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is begging parents to “talk” with their young teenagers about getting vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus, despite the fact that adolescents are in one of the lowest-risk categories.
A 14-year-old boy will be tried as an adult for first-degree, premeditated murder in the recent stabbing death of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey in Florida, officials said.
Law enforcement authorities are searching for a 41-year-old man who is accused of raping three teenage girls in Queens.
A woman in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, has been accused of impersonating a teen girl online, then forcing the girl to have sex with young males she reportedly lured on social media.
Teenagers have been involved in fights with knives for a very long time, activist and Black Lives Matter supporter Bree Newsome tweeted Tuesday.
Around 450 unaccompanied teen migrant girls relocated from a Houston housing facility Saturday and authorities have reportedly not offered much information about the closure.
The two 13 and 15-year-old girls charged in the armed fatal carjacking of a man recently in Washington, DC, will reportedly receive a plea deal.
A couple who have been taking in troubled teens for the past seven years have been told they must move to make room for the illegal aliens.
Two teenagers who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal assault of a 13-year-old at a California school have been sentenced to probation.
Two teenagers were rescued from the Slingshot ride at Old Town in Kissimmee, Florida, on Thursday after the ride apparently malfunctioned.
When 16-year-old Torri’ell Norwood of Florida took her school’s CPR training class, she had no idea those skills would help her save a life the very next day.
A man who was severely burned last week after two teens allegedly set him on fire has died from his injuries, police announced Tuesday morning.
A man who allegedly posed as a policeman and abducted two teenage girls in Lindenhurst, New York, was arrested Thursday, according to law enforcement officials.
Police have arrested two juveniles for allegedly murdering an Uber Eats delivery driver over the weekend in Haltom City, Texas.
Three teenagers allegedly struck a woman with a glass bottle and stole her iPhone in New York City’s Greenwich Village this week.
A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with an incident Tuesday when a group of cyclists appeared to vandalize a BMW in Manhattan.
A family in New Jersey is thankful for five young men who saved their two children from a frozen pond on December 17.
The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has reportedly begun an investigation and banned certain search terms linked to harmful pro-anorexia content. One expert explained that once a teenager has accessed eating disorder content, the platform floods their feed with the topic, because “TikTok is essentially designed to show you what it thinks you want to see.”
A Kentucky teenager is being praised for going the extra mile recently when he learned an elderly customer at the store where he works was in need.
Thousands of anti-Trump teens on TikTok got served by the Staten Island, New York, GOP last week when the teens tried to hoard online tickets to a rally they had no plans on showing up to.
A teenager in Arlington, Virginia, was busy working on earning her pilot’s license before she learned to drive a car.
San Francisco residents will vote in November to determine if 16 and 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote in local elections, NBC News reported Saturday.
A family in Detroit, Michigan, received a huge blessing this week after a neighbor learned they were in desperate need of help.
Teenagers at the Putt-Putt Golf & Games in Memphis, Tennessee, became violent Saturday when the business decided to close early.
According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, teens across the United States are becoming almost nocturnal during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Teenagers have adopted “vampire schedules” of staying up all night gaming and watching videos, then sleeping well into the day as they aren’t required to attend school in the morning.
A recent report revealed that teenagers spend an average of seven hours each day on their smartphones. The report suggests that 70 percent of teenagers conceal a portion of their online activity from their parents.
A police officer in Canton, Georgia, is being praised for saving two teenagers caught in a swollen river on Tuesday.
