For over a decade, U.S. lawmakers have promised guardrails for children on social media. They’ve grilled the chiefs of Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok about the dangers of their sites. They’ve introduced dozens of child safety bills. Little has come from the noise. But this week, two juries held social media companies accountable for harming...Read More

Predators are increasingly using real-time generative AI voice models to impersonate children on gaming platforms. Current safety protocols rely on reactive moderation instead of the real-time audio verification needed today. Legislative frameworks must expand beyond visual deepfakes to regulate synthetic audio manipulation in live channels. I was sitting in the room while my kids played...Read More

OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is filing suit against the online game Roblox for endangering children and deceiving parents. Drummond said despite Roblox’s public assurances to parents, the company has consistently placed corporate profit over child safety, allowing the platform to become a hunting ground for child predators. According to the...Read More

For the last forty-plus years, videogames have become an increasingly favorable and evolving pastime typically meant for children. Since then, with the implementation and expansion of the internet, video games started to not only appeal to people across the world from the comfort of their own homes, but allow its users to collaborate with one...Read More

It’s been more than a month since the apparent murder of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl in the Northern Territory and we still hearing stories about the neglect and abuse of Aboriginal children. For example, The Australian newspaper recently reported on a 12-year-old boy who ‘has been the subject of about 100 notifications relating to neglect,...Read More

The Victorian Early Childhood Regulatory Authority (VECRA) has filed criminal charges against TheirCare Pty Ltd, alleging multiple serious breaches of the Education and Care Services National Law that placed children’s safety at risk at the Rosanna Golf Links Primary School TheirCare service in Melbourne’s north‑east. The charges relate to alleged failures in supervision, staff suitability,...Read More

Last November, when the Canadian Center for Child Protection published nationally-representative data on the scale of sextortion and other forms of image based online abuse, it was a wake-up call for child safety online. According to the survey of nearly 1,300 Canadian teens who were sexually victimized online, over half of the cases involved images...Read More

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico state prosecutors are seeking fundamental changes to Meta’s social media apps and algorithms to safeguard children in the second phase of a landmark trial on allegations that platforms such as Instagram have created a public safety hazard. Opening statements began Monday in the three-week bench trial to decide...Read More

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New York (CNN) — Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives each year. Now, a new group is hoping to take a similar approach to artificial intelligence. Nonprofit media watchdog Common Sense Media is launching the Youth AI Safety...Read More