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 ...

No one tells you that becoming a parent means keeping a lot of dirty little secrets. Like that time you wiped your kid’s booger on the underside of a park bench when you were out of tissues. Or that ...

YouTube quietly rolled out changes to its algorithm last month in an effort to surface more family-friendly content amid an investigation into the platform by the Federal Trade Commission, according ...

The YouTube Kids homepage states that it's a safer experience for kids, but that "no system is perfect and inappropriate videos can slip through, so we’re constantly working to improve our safeguards ...

Attorneys general from 14 states are suing TikTok for harming children's mental health. Internal research accidentally revealed this week indicates TikTok knew its algorithm was harmful. Lawyers for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The call to Pittsburgh’s hotline for child abuse and neglect came in at 3.50pm on the Wednesday just before Christmas. Sitting in one of 12 cubicles, in a former factory now occupied by the Allegheny ...