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Common Questions
How do platforms verify children’s ages?
There’s extensive talk about age verification. But what is it? How do platforms make sure users are old enough? And can they do a better job?
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Ask the Experts—Webinars
AI and Children: Risks and Opportunities of the Enhanced Internet
Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT are changing the nature of online communications, work, creativity, and learning. What are the impacts to children’s social and cognitive development in this new, turbocharged Internet?
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Ask the Experts—Webinars
Algorithms 101: Youth and AI-Driven Tech
What can families do about the growing influence of algorithmically-delivered content on youth’s development, preferences, and minds?
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Ask the Experts—Shorts
Children’s awareness of algorithmic biases
From the #AskTheExperts webinar "Algorithms 101: Youth and AI-Driven Tech"
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Ask the Experts—Shorts
How Social Media Algorithms Exploit Youth Vulnerability
From #AskTheExperts webinar "Algorithms 101: Youth and AI-Driven Tech"
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Ask the Experts—Webinars
Captive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising
How does hidden online advertising impact children's attitudes and behaviors? How and why is youth data collected, and what can or should be done to safeguard children online?
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Deceptive Marketing Tactics on Popular Platforms for Kids
From "Captive Market: Protecting Children in the New World of Online Advertising"
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Ask the Experts—Shorts
AI, Social Media Algorithms, and “Echo Chambers”
From #AskTheExperts webinar "PITR, IKR?: Youth and Communication in the Digital Age"
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Ask the Experts—Webinars
The Lure of Loot: Gambling and Manipulative Design in Youth Video Games
Video games popular with youth increasingly contain gambling features and other design elements intended to entice children to spend real money in games - how is this impacting kids? What can be done about it?