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Teenagers use TikTok frequently but can’t discern fake news from fact. Here are four steps to boost their critical thinking skills.

New legal standards and systems-level, risk-based governance of youth use of social media are essential for safety and are business opportunities too.

We are living through an information revolution. The traditional gatekeepers of knowledge — librarians, journalists and government officials — have largely been replaced by technological gatekeepers — search engines, artificial intelligence chatbots and social media feeds. Whatever their flaws, the old gatekeepers were, at least on paper, beholden to the public. The new gatekeepers are fundamentally beholden only to profit and to their shareholders. That is about to change, thanks to a bol...

We are living through an information revolution. The traditional gatekeepers of knowledge - librarians, journalists and government officials - have largely been replaced by technological gatekeepers - search engines, artificial intelligence chatbots and social media feeds.

Why the European Unions ambitious new rules should be tweaked to allow journalists to access big tech data.

The Senate should preserve itself as a place to address the fundamentals of regulation when considering artificial intelligence.

The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act could force social media platforms to hand over valuable data about their inner workings to researchers and…

Haugen's new book, "The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook," highlights the importance of addressing the lack of accountability in the social media industry.

Sen. Mitt Romney reintroduced a bipartisan bill to create more transparency around the data that social media platforms gather while also allowing researchers access to the same.

Researchers or journalists who responsibly collect and analyze publicly available data from social media sites would receive legal protections if they adhere to privacy, security and public interest work requirements.