The California Capitol in Sacramento. | Credit: JasonDoiy/Shutterstock The California Catholic Conference is calling on residents to urge legislators to pass a bill restricting “addictive features” on social media for children under 16 in the same week that Meta agreed to pay billions of dollars and add safety limits to settle claims that Facebook and...Read More
AUGUSTA, Kan. (KWCH) – Concerns are being raised by parents in Augusta after a man has been seen approaching children on an e-bike and sharing his personal phone number. Social media posts are circulating about the man. After sharing his number, he tells the children to contact him. “He uses the disguise of his Disney...Read More
The logo of Meta at the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 20, 2026. Daniel Cole Reuters Meta Platforms, Inc. will pay $17.1 billion and implement sweeping child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook under a multistate settlement, announced by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson Wednesday. South Carolina will receive $246,976,186 from the...Read More
Children’s use of artificial intelligence and social media has become common. According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, children and adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems Archive On my son’s last day of Jiu...Read More
A California bill would ban ‘addictive features’ on social media for youth under the age of 16. The California Catholic Conference is calling on residents to urge legislators to pass a bill restricting “addictive features” on social media for children under 16 in the same week that Meta agreed to pay billions of dollars and...Read More
A whistleblower whose testimony helped build a child safety case against Meta Platforms said on Wednesday that the firm’s settlement with a coalition of U.S. states does not meaningfully address harms from social media that he described in court. Former Meta safety engineerArturo Bejar told a judge and eight jurors last week that the firm...Read More
The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram and Facebook that will apply...Read More
Meta’s minimum payment to the states will be around $11.7 billion over 10 years. Meta agreed to pay another $5 billion ($16.7 billion overall) if TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat end up settling state claims on similar terms. This effectively means that Meta will get a discount if its top rivals aren’t forced to impose the...Read More
It’s being called a landmark settlement. Billions of dollars will flow to states. And the social media giant Meta will make dramatic changes to its Instagram and Facebook platforms as a result. Meta on Wednesday agreed to pay as much as $17 billion to 51 states and territories to settle claims that the company’s products...Read More
LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) – Some parents are questioning whether metal detectors should be installed in schools across Lexington School District One after administrators found two students with weapons on school grounds. “It’s just extremely concerning,” one anonymous parent said. A gun and a knife were discovered at Carolina Springs Middle School. On Tuesday, a...Read More
