MADISON, Wis. — Changes to social media platforms are expected after a jury found YouTube and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, negligent for knowingly designing addictive products that harm the mental health of teens. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by a now 20-year-old woman and her mother. Meta and YouTube were ordered...Read More
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Idaho lawmakers advanced a bill aimed at strengthening protections for children in foster care, after hearing emotional testimony about abuse, trauma, and delays in stopping unsafe visitation. The House Health and Welfare Committee unanimously passed the Foster Child Safety Act and sent it to the House floor with a do-pass recommendation....Read More
VISALIA, CA. (FOX26) — A child sexual predator is now behind bars in Visalia. This is after a nationwide group that targets online child predators says one of its latest stings led to an arrest in Tulare County. Alex Rosen with Predator Poachers has caught sexual predators in all 50 states. Last month, he and...Read More
Photo provided Posted By: The Reporter March 31, 2026 During the week of March 23 to 27, the Noblesville Police Department (NPD) carried out a targeted online predator investigation designed to identify and apprehend individuals seeking to exploit minors. Throughout the week, specially trained detectives posed as juveniles between the age of 13 and 15,...Read More
Faced with mounting lawsuits over alleged child safety failures, popular virtual gaming platform Roblox has announced its effort to safeguard its chat feature using an automated rephrasing feature. Described in a company statement as an “AI-powered feature designed to keep gameplay fluid while maintaining civility within chat,” Roblox’s new feature forgoes filtering profanity with hashmarks (ex....Read More
One of the most powerful addictions of our times is also one of the most vexing to treat. After all, there’s a good chance you’re on this drug. It’s called social media. Like anything potentially addictive, social media isn’t particularly good for anyone and might be uniquely bad for kids. And yet, I use it...Read More
Is there a social media class action lawsuit? There is currently no large class action lawsuit against social media companies regarding mental health and compulsive use. People experiencing these harms have filed individual lawsuits consolidated in multidistrict litigation. Most other social media mental health cases are individual lawsuits consolidated into the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL...Read More
PHOENIX — A months- long investigation into Arizona’s child safety system is coming to an end as State Senator Carine Werner holds a final Department of Child Safety oversight hearing Monday. The hearings started after three children — Emily Pike, Rebekah Baptiste and Zariah Dodd — died. All three children had prior contact with the...Read More
Saskatchewan residents are being asked to voice their opinion on limiting the use of social media for kids, more specifically banning children under the age of 16 from using different platforms available. The early-stage idea has already led to reaction from professionals including Val Caldwell, who is an online safety educator and public speaker that believes...Read More
Hundreds of UK teenagers will trial social media bans, digital curfews and time limits on apps under a government pilot, which will run alongside a consultation to decide whether the UK should ban access to social media for the under-16s. During the test, led by the UK government, a proportion of 300 teens across all...Read More
