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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said yesterday , in a
Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia since the country banned use of the platforms by those under 16,
Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social
China’s latest sweep against wayward online influencers arrived with a familiar message: if you build a massive audience, Beijing expects you to behave like a
Caroline Stage, Danish Minister for Digitalization and representatives from the agreement parties As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16
Jorge Costa Oliveira In most countries, posting “life is crap” on social media gets you a sympathy emoji or, at worst, silence. In China, it can now
Australia’s Communications Minister Anika Wells Social media platforms must report monthly how many children’s accounts they close once Australia begins enforcing its 16-year age limit
Australia has added message board Reddit and livestreaming service Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children younger than 16 from holding accounts. The platforms
An AI-generated image that went viral on social media yesterday A sudden online sensation erupted over a newly installed crosswalk yesterday on Calçada do Botelho, as netizens –
Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is
Charlie Kirk speaks moments before he is shot during Turning Point’s visit to Utah Valley University in Orem They were careful with the explicit imagery — as
A protester shouts slogans carrying national flag after burning down a police station during protests against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, yesterday Nepal’s government responded
Online age checks are spreading in the U.S. and abroad, requiring people to present IDs or undergo face scans to prove they are over 18, 21 or
South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron’s death this week has triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for changes to the way the country’s celebrities are treated
Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ban on the immensely
Australia plans to require social media platforms to act to prevent online harms to users such as bullying, predatory behavior and algorithms pushing destructive content,
Donald Trump is returning — at least for one night — to do a live interview today on X, the platform from which he was banned
The Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM) has issued a warning to the public regarding a series of fake, sponsored advertisements that appear to have been
The European Union opened fresh investigations yesterday into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s
Apple said it had removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China to comply with orders from
Instagram said it’s deploying new new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.
The House yesterday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell
Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid
Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said that police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing’s attempts
Sexual predators. Addictive features. Suicide and eating disorders. Unrealistic beauty standards. Bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social
TikTok has restricted one tool researchers use to analyze popular videos, a move that follows a barrage of criticism directed at the social media platform about
Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South Korea, a decision its chief executive blamed on allegedly “prohibitively expensive” costs for
A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been arrested and charged with spreading false
A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today in a case filed by TikTok and five Montana content creators who want the court to block
Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence are having their moment this year, at least when it comes to making it look, or sound, like celebrities did something uncanny. Tom Hanks
Chinese-owned app TikTok yesterday said it regretted the Indonesian government’s decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms and particularly the impact it would have on
TikTok said yesterday that operations are underway at the first of its three European data centers, part of the popular Chinese owned app’s effort to ease Western
Montana is asking a federal judge to allow its law banning new downloads of the video-sharing app TikTok to take effect in January while a challenge filed
Threads, the simple, bare-bones text-based social network created by Facebook owner Meta, burst onto the scene during a particularly bad week for the rival then still known
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