On April 3rd, a temporary legal exemption allowing platforms to detect child sexual abuse material in Europe is set to expire — and the consequences could be significant. Thorn’s Head of Communications, Cassie Coccaro, sat down with Director of Policy Emily Slifer to break down what’s happening, why it matters beyond Europe, and what’s at...Read More

New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law in child safety trial – CBS News Watch CBS News The New Mexico Department of Justice has won a landmark trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent has the details. ———————————————— Source linkRead More

A New Mexico jury has found Meta liable for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children, ordering the company to pay $375 million in civil penalties. The verdict came Tuesday after six weeks of testimony and arguments in state court. According to the New Mexico Department of Justice, jurors found Meta...Read More

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s… For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the...Read More

Barely days after the precedent-setting verdicts around Meta and YouTube’s efforts to promote addictive behaviour among children, a group of digital safety advocates have now petitioned Google CEO Sundari Pichai and his colleague at YouTube Neil Mohan to change the latter’s policies in order to cut down AI slop. The demand came from a coalition...Read More

A New Mexico jury has found Meta liable for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children. Meta is ordered to pay $375 million in damages for violating state consumer protection laws. State Attorney General Raul Torrez, in a statement, said that Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded internal warnings,...Read More

New Mexico’s case relied on a state undercover investigation where agents created social media accounts posing as children to document sexual solicitations and Meta’s response. The lawsuit, filed in 2023 by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, also says Meta hasn’t fully disclosed or addressed the dangers of social media addiction. Meta hasn’t agreed that...Read More

Washington — James Woods, a 17-year-old college-bound track star, had just gotten his driver’s license and posed for his senior yearbook photo when an online predator targeted him on Instagram.  James received 200 messages in less than 20 hours, according to his mother, Tamia Woods.    “It ranged anywhere from ‘I own you,’ to ‘you...Read More

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) delivers his opening remarks at the markup on Thursday. (Screengrab) Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee forged ahead with legislation expanding protections for children online on Thursday, bucking opposition from Democrats who assailed what they called a diluted package that would instead put kids more...Read More

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