A recent study by psychologists shows that the regular use of social media is linked to changes in the brains of teenagers. This is especially troubling in light of the fact that the most popular social media platform for American teenagers is China’s TikTok, which pushes harmful messaging on teens as soon as they sign up for an account.
Police officers in Severna Park, Maryland, took quick action when a young person was in a dangerous situation last week.
According to a recent study, TikTok suggests possible harmful content around topics such as self-harm and eating disorders to new users within minutes of joining the platform. The app is overwhelmingly popular with teens
A pair of Iowa high schoolers allegedly killed their elderly Spanish teacher as retaliation for being given a bad grade and will be tried as adults in the case.
Police arrested two teenagers connected to the fatal stabbing of a man in the Bronx as crime plagues cities across the nation.
A New Orleans teenager who pleaded guilty to murdering another teenager last year was tried as a juvenile instead of as an adult by Democrat Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, leaving the victim’s mother furious.
A 14-year-old girl has been arrested in connection with a fire that occurred at a Walmart in Peachtree City, Georgia, on August 24.
A third suspect was taken into custody after an alleged “anti-white” incident when a grandmother was targeted on a Queens bus, police told the New York Post.
A nurse practitioner from Macomb County, Michigan, is accused of trying to meet a teen for sex after messaging an official posing as the target.
Roman Chuprikov, an adviser to Russia’s top official for children’s rights, said on Thursday that suicides among minors have skyrocketed by 40 percent since 2020.
Facebook (now known as Meta) recently was hit with a wave of lawsuits relating to the company’s platforms and their negative impact on teen mental health; now the company’s Instagram platform is influencing teens to “Take a Break” and stop consuming harmful content.
Reality star Paris Hilton visited the White House Tuesday, as she continues advocating for laws to protect troubled children and teenagers in reform facilities.
A dive team recovered the body of a missing Idaho teen from a vehicle found in a river four years after his disappearance.
Police arrested Ahliah Vestal and Savannah Walker, both 17, charging them with aggravated assault following a recent attack on another teenager at Clifton City Park in Texas.
A New York judge dismissed an indictment charge against a juvenile accused of murder, allowing the teen to walk free, per a report.
A Chicago man convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl, a judge says he “discarded like garbage,” has been sentenced to 105 years in prison.
A New York library is putting books parents have deemed inappropriate and that have been removed from schools into the hands of teens across the U.S.
A nonprofit will be flying over 100 veterans from Michigan to Washington, DC, thanks in large part to Kalamazoo girl, per a report
A family member of the teen who authorities say fatally fell from an Orlando amusement ride has started a petition to close the ride for good.
The family of the teen who fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride has hired a pair of high-profile personal injury attorneys.
The New York City Police Department is searching for a group of young perpetrators they say punched and kicked a 14-year-old boy at a Brooklyn train station earlier this month.
Officials said a 13-year-old was driving a pickup truck that collided head-on with a van in an accident that killed nine people in Texas.
The algorithm for the Chinese-owned TikTok app makes it easier for teens to go viral and gain internet fame, especially with sexualized videos. But the downside of posting racy videos to social media is the toll taken on teens’ mental health, according to mental health professionals.
A Florida teen reportedly motivated by the movie Scream has been charged with attempted murder after deputies say he tried to kill a man so he could “place the victim’s body into his closet” where he could keep the “body all to himself.”
A 17-year-old Texas boy, accused of shooting a 15-year-old girl 22 times, has been released from custody after posting a $250,000 bond, according to reports.
Parents in South Korea have expressed “anger” in recent days against a looming federal mandate that will require children aged 12 to 17 years to provide proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus to enter public spaces “frequented by students, including cram schools, internet cafes, and public study rooms” starting in February, Yonhap reported Monday.
In a recent letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of academics stated that internal Facebook research into the effects of the platform is “doomed to fail,” and the company should allow third-party groups to review the impact of Zuckerberg’s platforms on young people.
Judges in Kent County, Michigan, brought multiple families together on Thursday during the county’s 25th annual Adoption Day.
Yussuf Mustapha, 14, is believed to be the UK’s youngest convicted gun murderer after he was found guilty of killing a classmate.
Records said four capital murder suspects arrested for Tuesday’s murder of a man at a Costco parking lot in Dallas are young people, according to Fox 4.
According to a recent report by Fairplay, Global Action Plan and Reset Australia, Facebook (now Meta) is continuing to track teenagers for ad targeting across its social media platforms despite claiming it would be limiting how advertisers could reach young users.
A local store was left with nothing after thieves apparently targeted it, but community members are stepping up to get the shop, One Pair, back to business.
Paris Hilton is calling on President Joe Biden and Congress to take action against the “troubled teen industry,” so that “kids can avoid the abuse I endured.” Hilton claims the abusive industry has been running rampant for years.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, teenage girls around the world have reportedly been showing up at doctors’ offices with newly developed tics — physical jerking movements and verbal outbursts — which doctors believe could be caused by the Chinese-owned social media app, TikTok.
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.
