Senators Josh Hawley and Dick Durbin have raised concerns about explicit content and alleged child abuse linked to the platform. Roblox reported 65,381 suspected child sexual exploitation instances to NCMEC in 2025. The senators said that figure was more than double Roblox’s 2024 total. Several US states and Los Angeles County have sued Roblox over...Read More

Michael Dwain Mathews of Mineola was arrested last week for online solicitation of a minor after being caught in a sting by the group Predator Poachers. According to Wood County court documents, the group posed online as a minor. The suspect allegedly sent explicit messages and photographs before providing instructions to meet at a specific...Read More

New York —  OpenAI is rolling out a new “ChatGPT for Teens” experience that it says will provide additional safety protections for teen users. The move comes as OpenAI faces a string of lawsuits alleging that inappropriate conversations with ChatGPT contributed to the harm or deaths of young people. The experience will bring together new tools...Read More

OAKLAND, Calif. — Opening arguments are set to kick off Tuesday in a pivotal trial for Meta Platforms in a California federal court. Attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are seeking extensive financial damages plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram. Twenty-nine states sued the tech giant in 2023...Read More

Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Bill C-34 shares many of the same features that led the French court to conclude the French law was overly broad and unconstitutional, says Tamir Israel, a director at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.Rick Rycroft/The Associated Press The federal government is likely to face a constitutional challenge to its...Read More

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‘We did it with the tobacco settlement…we did it with the companies behind the opioid crisis. We’ll do it again with Meta,’ Kentucky AG Russell Coleman said. A cohort of four US states are taking Meta to trial today (18 August) in hopes of proving that the social media giant knowingly causes harm to children....Read More

Meta is kicking off a court battle with some of the highest stakes yet. But it is far from the only litigation facing the social media giant and its competitors. In a federal trial beginning Tuesday in Oakland, California, the Instagram and Facebook parent company is fighting claims that it has contributed to the youth...Read More

Before the August 18 tragedy at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, the Senate has been investigating the potential radicalization of Filipino children Trigger warning: This article has references to suicide and weapons.  A fatal shooting involving high school students at Ateneo de Zamboanga University on Tuesday, August 18, renewed concerns over school safety as several...Read More

A new study by Stellenbosch University and Artefact South Africa has called for targeted prevention and support strategies to address cyberbullying among teenagers. A child using a smartphone to access games or social media/iStock/Jacob Wackerhausen Researchers Daniel le Roux and Camryn Twaddle found that 63.9% of pupils surveyed had been involved in cyberbullying. “The most...Read More