The broiling controversy over social media websites is leaving parents in a quandary. While the sites and apps are part of youth culture, they also carry risk. Parents find themselves stuck in the middle of wanting to keep their children safe but simultaneously allow them to be kids – all the while battling algorithms designed...Read More
Not a subscriber? Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Exclusive: The conservative family advocacy group American Principles Project and other children’s safety advocates are raising alarm over a new Senate bill. The advocates argue that the bill relaxes age-verification requirements and includes an advertising carveout for Google. In a landmark settlement,...Read More
Assemblymember Joe Patterson, R-Rocklin, speaks at the Capitol on May 8, 2025. Patterson is a co-author of AB 1709, which seeks to protect kids under 16 from addictive social media. NATHANIEL LEVINE nlevine@sacbee.com Something awful happened to the mental health of America’s youth around 2010. Rates of anxiety and depression spiked, as did incidents of...Read More
Steroids were once something you had to go looking for. You had to be in the right – or wrong – gym circle, or know the right person. But now, lads are readily watching other young men discuss their cycles on TikTok before they’ve even finished breakfast. Speaking on the Men’s Health Built for Life...Read More
SMITHS GROVE, Ky. – One man is facing charges after allegedly soliciting a minor online in Smiths Grove. According to Trooper Katan Parker, public affairs officer for Kentucky State Police Post Three, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a group called Predator Poachers regarding the case, and deputies reached out to the Kentucky...Read More
Back-to-school safety will be the focus of Saturday’s Community Kauffee hosted by Oswego Village President Ryan Kauffman. Kauffman will be joined by members of the Oswego Police Department and Kendall County Sheriff’s Office for a conversation focused on back-to-school safety. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the community room...Read More
Béjar claimed Meta ignored warnings about harmful content. It echoed similar claims by Frances Haugen, a disillusioned former engineer, that not only scuppered Meta’s plans for a kids version of Instagram, but inspired Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, and a group of other US attorneys to pursue Meta this time around. Béjar also alleged Meta...Read More
New Hampshire will receive up to $224 million as part of agreement resolving lawsuits that claimed tech-giant Meta intentionally designed its products to addict young users and misrepresented the safety risks their social media platforms posed. New Hampshire’s payout is part of a more than $17 billion multi-state deal, which includes 47 other states, Washington...Read More
According to Carr’s office, almost every attorney general nationwide started investigating the social media industry in 2021. In October 2023, a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general sued Meta following a multiyear nationwide investigation into the company’s practices. The attorneys general alleged that Meta intentionally designed Facebook and Instagram to foster compulsive use among young people...Read More
This week, news broke that Meta had settled with 47 state attorneys general who jointly sued it for knowingly addicting kids to its platforms. The agreement sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, and among those working on technology and child safety across the nation. Those who were too far out of the range of the...Read More
