A New Mexico court just delivered one of the biggest blows yet to Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram. The court ordered Meta to pay $567 million to help young people who were hurt by its platforms. Combined with an earlier $375 million penalty from March, Meta now owes New Mexico $942 million total....Read More
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a lawsuit Tuesday against the social media app TikTok, contending the wildly popular platform misrepresents itself as age-appropriate for children. “This includes profanity, drinking, drug use, nudity, individuals in sexually suggestive situations,” he said. “Activities that 13-, 14- and 15-year-olds should not be exposed to at such a young...Read More
The State of Texas canceled a contract with a Dallas-area child welfare agency after months of evaluating the company’s child safety practices, following the deaths of two infants and hospitalization of another child. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) cited the child safety failures of EMPOWER in a petition filed March 16,...Read More
COURTESY: CITY OF LINCOLN LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Today, the City of Lincoln highlighted the progress made regarding the Lincoln Safe Routes to School initiative. The City launched the program in 2020 and has completed 33 improvement projects since then. Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird said the projects finished will contribute to child safety. “Public safety...Read More
New research from Australian Catholic University (ACU) argues that adolescents are active, discerning users of social media and online gaming, not passive victims of algorithms. This challenges a narrative that has driven a wave of restrictive policy responses worldwide. The ACU review, published in June 2026, examined 90 studies across 26 countries, centring young people’s...Read More
Play Brightcove video Social media sites were mentioned thousands of times during calls with Childline last year, as ITV News’ Philip Sime reports Words by ITV News Senior UK Producer Liz Little TikTok was the most-mentioned social media platform during counselling sessions with Childline over the last year, according to new data shared exclusively with...Read More
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media giant of exposing children to adult-themed content and using addictive features. The complaint filed this week in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, seeks “honesty” from TikTok in how its platform appears in app stores and demands the company take steps...Read More
Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Tuesday signed a package of three bills designed to protect New Jersey children online, hold social media companies accountable, and address the harmful and addictive effects of social media on young people. Additionally, the Secretary of Higher Education announced a request for proposals to establish a Social Media Research Center at...Read More
Sunday evening, Alachua Police Department officers arrested Benjamin Eugene McDaniel, 62, a designated sexual predator who absconded from the Florida Sexual Offender/Predator Registry. An absconder is defined as a sexual offender or predator who is no longer residing at the last address they provided for the registry. Early Sunday morning, Officer Cody Tapanes was on patrol...Read More
What are you and your colleagues seeing in your practice related to teenage boys and looksmaxxing? We’ve been hearing about how popular looksmaxxing is on TikTok and Instagram, and how it’s gone beyond attracting women: It’s also become a competition among boys and men where they have their faces analyzed, compared and even ridiculed so...Read More
