The contention by X, whose parent company is Elon Musk’s SpaceX, amounts to one of the world’s most powerful people injecting a geopolitical element into the debate on the social media ban for teens
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines calls it ‘outrageous’ for the vice president to insult the work of Philippine news organizations
A bipartisan group of 29 US states is suing Meta, seeking potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in penalties and changes to how Meta does business
‘If Mark makes something a priority, mountains move in months,’ says former Meta Platforms engineering director Arturo Bejar
The plaintiff, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey, drops her claims without any payment. TikTok, which was also a defendant in her case, had previously settled her claims.
TikTok and ByteDance settle US privacy allegations for $400 million, enhancing protections for children’s online data.
‘People who use a social media platform should have a greater say in the kinds of information shown to them. If platform designers, the public and policymakers can create new tools that facilitate this goal, then perhaps platforms can better support the values and actions people care about,’ researchers say
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says, ”Social media is exposing them to harmful content, addictive technology, and pressures they are not equipped to deal with and it’s affecting their family life, mental health, sleep, and education’
(2nd UPDATE) Meta will impose daily usage limits and restrict nighttime usage by children who use Facebook and Instagram, and enhance measures to prevent children from accessing age-restricted content
Meta’s US settlement feels like a PR win for its team, even as critics like ex-Meta executive Arturo Bejar slam the company by calling the settlement insufficient