LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Over the last five years, efforts to make social networks Facebook and Instagram safer for young people have erupted across courts, classrooms and capitals.
Now Meta Platforms, the parent company of the world’s most popular social networks, faces another big moment of reckoning.
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