School safety: Law enforcement urges traffic awareness on Athens, Limestone County roads Published 7:30 am Saturday, August 8, 2026 With local classes back in session for the start of the 2026-2027 academic year, busy periods of school traffic will once more become part of the weekday bustle as motorists make their rounds in and around...Read More

The money is eye-catching. The number is enormous. But the real story is about something much harder to measure: trust. For millions of families, the argument about social media usually starts the same way. A parent notices their child spending more time on a phone. A teenager insists they are simply keeping up with friends....Read More

Children and families in Cleburne County will soon have access to specialized child advocacy services without traveling outside their community. The Child Safety Center has announced plans to open a new office inside Heber Springs City Hall this fall. The expansion is designed to improve access to trauma-informed care while strengthening the local response to...Read More

Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe has been slammed for maintaining a close relationship with Elon Musk while holding shares in an online child safety business. Far-right tech billionaire Musk, the richest person in the world, owns the social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), which has been used to produce sexually explicit images of...Read More

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money — $420 million — will be used...Read More

Source: Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock As a parent, I’ve been fairly liberal in letting my kids use technology. When they were in their early teens, I did monitor their use somewhat, but now that they are nearly adults, I hardly think about their technology use. Yes, they are on their phones too much, but we all are....Read More

Weeks after NDTV’s investigation exposed sexually suggestive videos involving minors, AI-generated exploitative content, coded hashtags and captions, and networks directing users to Telegram channels, Meta has acknowledged limitations, saying that its current automated enforcement systems ‘often rely on straightforward patterns’ and ‘aren’t as good at capturing nuance’. The tech giant disclosed that it is developing...Read More

A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children. Meta was previously ordered to pay $375 million in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the company liable for endangering children by...Read More

A Peters Township teen is accused of sexting a 14-year-old boy earlier this summer and trying to set up a meeting for a sexual encounter. Alexander Scott, 18, was charged by Washington police Thursday with numerous felony counts after communicating with the boy on an internet chat board June 29 that escalated until the juvenile...Read More

A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest fine against the company over child safety. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the social media giant is a “public nuisance” akin to air pollution and...Read More