NEW MEXICO: A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million (about £421 million) for failing to adequately warn the public about the risks its platforms pose to children, marking the largest child-safety ruling against the social media company to date. In a decision, Judge Bryan Biedscheid described Meta as...Read More
SANTA FE, N.M. (TNND) — A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta Platforms to pay $567 million and implement changes to protect children on Facebook and Instagram. Judge Bryan Biedcheid said the bulk of the money — $420 million — will be used for treatment services for young people, while the rest will go...Read More
“Just as noxious pollution produced by the factory can harm the common public right to reasonably clean air, the harmful effects of Meta’s platforms on children do not stay contained by its platforms and, instead, migrate to the internet as a whole and, perhaps most concerning, to the real world and create a common, societal...Read More
Last year, 1142 women and children were recorded as victims of assault in communities across Cape York. Photo: Unsplash/Zohre Nemati. Indigenous thinktank the Cape York Institute says more needs to be done to address horrific rates of alcohol-fuelled violence on the peninsula and has called on the State Government to do more to enforce parental...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
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is facing growing regulatory scrutiny in India amid concerns over the spread of child exploitation content, platform safety, and algorithmic recommendations.Government agencies have reportedly intensified oversight of Meta’s operations, seeking greater accountability over how harmful content is detected, removed, and prevented from reaching users. The developments have...Read More
STOCK PHOTO | Image by Kelly Sikkema from Unsplash IN THE WAKE of the tragic school shooting in Tacloban that led to the death of three students, it is only natural for society to search for answers. Yet proposals to restrict or ban video games are not supported by the overwhelming body of available evidence....Read More
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A Los Angeles-area teenager who was critically injured last year in an electric bicycle crash is now speaking out about the dangers such bikes can pose. Andrea Rankin said she still remembers the phone call she received on Aug. 26 last year after her daughter, Raquel Waters, was injured while riding...Read More
The Union government is benchmarking international legislative frameworks on online child safety as part of an ongoing review of India’s digital ecosystem, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Vaishnaw stated that domestic policy updates are being evaluated through a consultative approach, balancing international regulatory precedents with constitutional...Read More
Zuckerberg expressed regret over harmful content on Meta platforms amid ongoing government action on child safety, AI moderation and platform accountability The apology comes amid government action over child safety, AI-generated content and platform accountability Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to the Indian government over the presence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and...Read More
