This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) will be in focus on Friday after a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay $567 million to fund youth mental health treatment and prevention programs, adding to an earlier $375 million civil penalty, according to a Thursday court ruling. The latest order brings Meta’s...Read More
SANTA FE, NM – A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, to pay $567 million to address harm to young users from its platforms, in the second phase of a case. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said $420 million of the amount will be used for treatment services for young people,...Read More
Meta says it takes teen safety seriously. A judge in New Mexico just added a $567 million reason to believe the courts want more than promises. The ruling came Thursday in a case about social media harm and addiction. It stacks on top of the $375 million New Mexico ordered in March, bringing the total...Read More
Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million and make sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram after a New Mexico court found that the company’s platforms harmed young people and required stronger protections for minors. The award comes on top of a $375 million civil penalty imposed by a jury in March, bringing Meta’s financial...Read More
When Megan Garcia told lawmakers about how her 14-year-old son died by suicide after months of conversations with a chatbot from Character. Al, one of her main requests might have been, on the face of it, the simplest — restrict access for those under a certain age. “I don’t think that chatbot technology in its...Read More
Children and young people spend a lot of time online, and many of them play online games every day. These online environments can also expose them to risks such as cyberbullying, exploitation, recruitment, radicalisation or grooming. The EU-funded project The Gaming Police brings Finnish police into digital spaces, reaching vulnerable young people through the gaming...Read More
BRAINERD — The first-ever CC’s Sack Attack Bags Tournament raised preliminary gross proceeds of more than $6,000 to support Family Fun Day and the Alex & Brandon Child Safety Center, a program of Relationship Safety Alliance. Held July 25 at CC’s Bar in Brainerd, the event brought together 20 teams, volunteers, local businesses, donors and...Read More
(Bloomberg) — A key Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a package of bills aimed at improving children’s safety online, teeing up a showdown with the House over whether to hold Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harms done to minors on their social media platforms. Most Read from Bloomberg The bills passed...Read More
Meta’s ad platform did something it has promised, repeatedly, never to allow again. According to a new investigation from Wired, Meta ran dozens of paid ads over the past nine months containing explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, some of which stayed live even after the company was directly confronted about them. If this feels...Read More
Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets users in India add their date of birth, an update to the massively popular messaging service in its largest market. Screenshots circulating online in recent days show a box that appeared atop the app for some users saying, “Add your date of birth. Upcoming...Read More
