Meta battles legal challenges in the US, Europe and beyond over platform design and its impact on younger users.

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.

A two-day conference bringing together international researchers studying technology-mediated social experiences, to explore new directions in research, emerging methods, and evidence-based policy.

Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’.

Exploitation by Design: Disrupting Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Technology is enabling child sexual exploitation and abuse at a scale and speed that existing responses…

Decisionmakers tell POLITICO that social media ban for kids is ‘not the simple route.’

Sonia Livingstone, member of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, shares how AI is transforming children's lives.

Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid ‘mounting evidence’ of harmful impact

Professor Sonia Livingstone joins the UN’s first global scientific panel on AI, uniting 40 experts to guide evidence‑based understanding of how AI is reshaping our lives. Learn more.

On Safer Internet Day 2026, the EU Kids Online Team detail some of the findings of their new report on children and their use of generative AI.

6.30pm Thurs 20 Nov |Sandra El Gemayel Baroness Kidron Julian Sefton-Green Rhys Spence| Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Australia's ban of social media for under 16s has re-ignited the same debate in the UK. Sonia Livingstone argues that more evidence is needed before such a ban.

A realistic appraisal of social media’s entanglement with US interests and radical transparency are necessary for any regulation to be effective.

Can AI literacy deliver? LSE's Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone discuss their latest findings from the DFC project on AI and children’s rights.

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Can AI literacy deliver? LSE's Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone discuss their latest findings from the DFC project on AI and children’s rights.

12pm (UTC) 16 September 2026 | Livingstone, Fortim, Kaberi, Pothong and Raman | free event discussing RightsAI findings

12pm (UTC) 16 September 2026 | Livingstone, Fortim, Kaberi, Pothong and Raman | free event discussing RightsAI findings

More than half a million people have signed a petition calling for the Online Safety Act to be repealed, while ministers insist the new rules are a success. One month on, what difference have the cont...

President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.