While policymakers and headlines have traditionally zeroed in on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X, young people are ...

A Wake County teen is the latest in a growing number of people to sue apps Roblox and Discord alleging the platforms are a "haven for adult sexual predators and pedophiles." ...

A reporting consortium including Der Spiegel, Recorder, The Washington Post, and WIRED has unearthed a sprawling ecosystem that has targeted thousands of people and victimized dozens, if not hundreds, ...

(Bloomberg) -- Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. are the latest targets in a wave of lawsuits over social media addiction, in a case alleging an 11-year-old girl was exploited by a sexual predator while ...

Needham & Company senior analyst Laura Martin explains why video game sales skyrocketed during the pandemic, including the lack of live sports, and sees the video game industry will continue to ...

Hackers last week attacked Discord online groups used by students, instructors and alumni at UC Irvine, posting gory videos of human and animal mutilation that reportedly sent some viewers to the ...

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited ...

W hen Black Lives Matter protests began in Dallas near the end of May, Maria Santibanez, 26, decided she wanted to join. Yet details about plans—where they’d meet, where they’d go, where they’d ...

Although “Pokemon Go” is fun to play solo, the game’s true potential emerges when tackled with others. That’s part of the reason for its success. Since its summer 2016 release, the geolocation-based ...