Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old
Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old

Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney general’s office before the filing. What that account could reach is the evidence. Attorney General David Sunda…

Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters
Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters

X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is seeking legal advice. XCancel, the best-known site bu…

Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules
Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the…

Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case
Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal …

Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement

Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, […]

Meta to Pay Up to $18 Billion to Settle With US States on Teen Social Media Addiction

CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will avoid what likely would’ve been a disastrous, high-stakes trial.

Meta to Pay Up to $16.68 Billion to Settle With US States on Teen Social Media Addiction

CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will avoid what likely would’ve been a disastrous, high-stakes trial.

Gossip Goblin Wants His Films To Outlast The AI Label

Gossip Goblin filmmaker Zack London is building strange AI worlds, resisting algorithms and betting his films can ultimately outlast the AI label.

Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point
Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point

Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control softwar…

Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped
Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped

Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app’s “Take a Break” feature “helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped”, as internal documents showed only 1.8% of teenagers used it. Meta’s public blog post at t…