When the Australian government announced sweeping restrictions on youth social media access, the goal was to keep kids safe by preventing them from encountering harmful content on their feeds. About nine months after that law went into effect, however, it is not looking terribly effective. According to data provided by Qustodio, Australian kids and teens are...Read More
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is continuing his fight against social media’s negative impacts on children, now suing Snapchat, which, according to the Pew Research Center, is used by half of American teens every day. The move comes two weeks after Sunday filed a lawsuit against TikTok and as his office remains engaged in a multistate...Read More
OAKLAND, United States – The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default, at a trial over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by US...Read More
OAKLAND, United States – The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default, at a trial over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by US...Read More
Brazil has tightened social media regulations, cracking down on disinformation and requiring under-16s to link their accounts to their parents’. (EPA Images pic) RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s data protection agency on Tuesday fined TikTok nearly US$30 million for failing to implement child safety measures in what it said was a “powerful signal” to social media...Read More
Adam Mosseri (C), head of Instagram, arrives at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & United States Courthouse as Meta is on trial over social media addiction in Oakland, California, on August 25, 2026. KARL MONDON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption KARL MONDON/AFP via Getty Images Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning...Read More
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Updated August 19, 2026 at 8:40 AM EDT Sign up for alerts on breaking news and exclusive reporting from NPR OAKLAND, Calif. – A landmark trial got underway on Tuesday pitting Meta Platforms against a consortium of states accusing the company of designing its platforms to hook young users and misleading the public about it....Read More
A formal complaint filed with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has brought the simmering global controversy over Meta Platforms’ child-safety practices to India’s doorstep. Filed by A.S. Santhosh, General Secretary of the Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF) in Hyderabad, the complaint urges the NHRC to launch an independent inquiry into whether Meta’s Indian operations—specifically...Read More
Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the owners of a popular social media platform on Tuesday, alleging the social media company puts children at risk. Pa. Attorney General Dave Sunday says children are becoming addicted to Snapchat and wants the company – Snap, Inc. – to reveal how it markets its app. Sunday also says Snapchat...Read More
