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New Zealand to introduce bill banning social media for children under 16New Zealand’s conservative coalition government will introduce legislation to ban children under 16 from using social media, with platforms...- New Zealand to introduce bill banning social media for children under 16The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users' ages, including by utilising existing account inf...
- From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media accessBelow is a summary of what countries and companies are doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over the impact of s...
- TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children's privacyTikTok has agreed to a $400 million settlement with the US Department of Justice. This resolution addresses allegations of violating federa...
- US teen drops lawsuit against Meta, Google and Snap ahead of trialThe plaintiff, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey identified in California court records as P. M-Y., had alleged the platforms' owners - Me...
- Participants at MeitY child safety consultation call for regulation beyond content takedownsParticipants said there was no demand for a blanket ban on social media. Instead, discussions centred on defining and enforcing “safety by ...
- What if Meta loses trial? Penalties may top $1.4 trillion, matching its market capMeta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is being sued by a bipartisan coalition of states on allegations of deceiving the public and desig...
- Mark Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies at trialArturo Bejar, a vocal critic of Meta's safety record, made the allegation during his second day of testimony in a landmark trial over claim...
- Man claims Gen-Z's ability to work is being destroyed by their parent's passive income and reluctance to let them work entry level jobsAn X user's criticism of affluent Indian parenting has triggered a debate over whether generational wealth encourages dependence among some...
- Australia secures court-enforceable child safety undertaking from RobloxThe agreement marks an incremental win for the eSafety Commissioner as it seeks to use its enforcement powers to make online platforms co...
- Former Meta engineer resumes testimony in landmark trial over social media's harm to young usersArturo Bejar, who worked at Meta from 2009 to 2015 before returning to the company as an independent contractor from 2019 to 2021, is the f...
- Meta rejects claims it sought to hook children to Facebook, Instagram as landmark trial beginsFour lead states - California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey - accused Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, fu...
- In Meta's trial, families of social media victims see pivotal moment for online safetyWritten on it in black ink were the names of children and young adults who have died from social media related harms, including deaths by s...
- Meta rejects allegations it sought to hook children as landmark trial beginsFour lead states - California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey - accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, fue...
- A look at major lawsuits against Meta, other social media companies over harms to kidsIn a federal trial beginning Tuesday in Oakland, California, the Instagram and Facebook parent company is fighting claims that it has contr...
- France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15sThe bill would have barred children younger than 15 from opening a social media account from September 1. Accounts already open would be cl...
- France's top court rules social media ban curtails freedom of expressionFrance's top court has blocked a bill banning social media access for minors. The Constitutional Council cited infringement upon freedom of...
- Social media firms urge caution on early Australia under-16 ban dataLocal heads of YouTube owner Google, Facebook and Instagram owner Meta, Snapchat and TikTok fronted a Senate inquiry as lawmakers pressed t...
- Meta says it has taken down 756,000 Australian teen accounts as ban enforcement loomsThe company said it had deactivated 462,000 suspect Instagram accounts and 294,000 suspect Facebook accounts from just before the Australia...
- MPs across party lines push bills to limit social media access for minorsAlthough private members’ Bills have rarely been cleared by both Houses in the past, their introduction reflects the growing urgency among ...
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