Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day The social media company Meta and the states suing it have agreed to a proposed settlement that would resolve a landmark federal child safety lawsuit, according to a statement from California Attorney General Rob Bonta. California, Colorado, Kentucky...Read More
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office says 40 registered sex offenders and predators were arrested during a three-day operation targeting compliance with Florida’s sex offender registration requirements. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office partnered with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Florida Department of Corrections for Operation Offenders: Endgame, conducted Aug. 25-27. According to FCSO, the...Read More
FAIRMONT — The City of Fairmont will look at other options once its contract with Flock Safety expires. “We’ve already pressed hold on expansion of anything further,” City Manager Travis Blosser said on Tuesday after the regular City Council meeting. “We already have an agreement in place, so that agreement has to go through its length...Read More
A settlement announced Wednesday between Meta and dozens of states resolves one of its biggest legal fights, but the social media giant is still facing litigation elsewhere over its products’ effects on young people’s mental health. The deal cut short a landmark trial in federal court in Oakland, California, where the Instagram and Facebook parent...Read More
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion (€14.6bn) and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were among 29 states that sued...Read More
by Elise Rapoza, CommonWealth Beacon August 29, 2026 MY CHILD doesn’t have a smartphone or use social media. Until they turned 13, I thought that meant they were protected from its influence. I was wrong. I’m watching the culture of social media reach my child secondhand, both as a mother and the wife of a...Read More
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Meta has reached a landmark settlement with 47 states, Washington, D.C. and U.S. territories, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram over claims that the platforms endangered children through addictive features, The New York Times reports. Meta will initially pay about $12 billion, with the...Read More
Bridget Healy was attacked on the eighth day of the school year. The first week had been full of violence. Ms. Healy was teaching a Grade 4 class at a school in Innisfil, Ont., in the fall of 2023. A safety plan had been put in place for one of the 23 students – a...Read More
Kyle Flowers Said that he Was Recently Working as a Golf Instructor for Children On Monday, prosecutors formally charged Kyle Michael Flowers, 33, with traveling to meet a minor, transmission of harmful material to a minor using an electronic device, online child solicitation and unlawful use of a two-way communications device. Flowers was caught in...Read More
