Cutting down on social media use by as little as 15 minutes a day can significantly improve the mental and physical health of young people, new research has found.

YouTube has been accused by a father and campaigner of breaching of UK data privacy laws by collecting the viewing data of children aged under 13.

TikTok has announced that it is setting a default 60-minute daily screen time limit for users aged under 18. The feature will be rolled out “in the coming weeks”, said a boss at the firm.

International Baccalaureate pupils will be allowed to use ChatGPT to write essays.

TikTok has been urged by charities to do more to protect the wellbeing of children.

WhatsApp has laid its cards on the table. The popular messaging service has made it clear it will remove its services from the UK if the Online Safety Bill requires it to weaken end-to-end encryption. Campaigners say authorities must be able to scan messages to detect child abuse content but critics argue this will allow criminals to target users.

New research has found students are not being taught adequately about the impact of pornography and risky relationships in schools.

This week we have also learnt that Snapchat is blocking a fraction of the number of underage users that TikTok is, according to Ofcom data.

Campaigners are calling for the Online Safety Bill to be strengthened so that tech giants are not only responsible for protecting under 18s from harmful content such as videos promoting anorexia, but adults too. “Vulnerability doesn’t stop just because you’ve reached the age of 18,” said Baroness Nicky Morgan.