Latest by Barbara Ortutay

Published on March 19, 2024 - Page 16
Social media CEOs were recently grilled by Senate lawmakers in an emotional and often heated hearing about the dangers their platforms pose to...
Published on March 12, 2024 - Page 5
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don't have their phones with them, according to a new report from the...
Published on November 8, 2023 - Page 5
On the day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, a...
Published on September 28, 2023 - Page 22
Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members there on Valentine's Day...
Published on June 9, 2023 - Page 7
The Los Angeles district attorney's office said Thursday it has left Twitter due to a barrage of "vicious" homophobic attacks not removed by the...
Published on May 7, 2023 - Page 16
With ever-changing social-media algorithms pushing content at children, parents are seeing their kids' mental health suffer, even as platforms like...
Published on November 19, 2022 - Page 5
Twitter is in chaos. Elon Musk decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an ultimatum -- work grueling hours and be "extremely hardcore...
Published on July 29, 2022 - Page 10
Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries, according to a report from the nonprofit...
Published on June 29, 2022 - Page 4
With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal...
Published on January 11, 2021 - Page 8
Businesses are rethinking political contributions in the wake of the deadly Capitol siege by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Wednesday....