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On June 22, the U.S. House dropped its heavily negotiated package of bills focused on kids’ online safety. This package is a significant revision from the package of bills introduced in March, which ...

The Kids Online Safety Act was supposed to fix (or break) the internet. Now, after nearly three years of rewrites, it’s got days left to pass. is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the ...

Kristin Bride lost her 16-year-old son, Carson, to suicide in 2020. She says shortly before he took his own life he was bullied on the social media site Snapchat. "Carson received over 100 harassing ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

The House made its biggest push yet to advance kids online safety legislation in the final weeks of 2025. A subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce panel rolled out a slate of 19 bills in late ...

The Senate overwhelmingly passed the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday, but the legislation faces an uphill battle in the House because of censorship concerns. By Cecilia Kang Reporting on child ...