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Meta to Limit Teens’ Time on Instagram and Facebook Under State Settlement

The agreement links mandatory teen safeguards to roughly $18 billion in payments pending judicial approval.

LinkedIn Says ‘AI Slop’ Flag Was Clicked by 1 Million Users and Cut Views by 40%

States Put Meta on Trial in Oakland Over Claims Platforms Hook Children

Instagram Unveils First Wordmark Redesign in a Decade

Federal Trial Begins Over States’ Claims That Meta Designed Apps To Hook Children

U.S. States Put Meta on Trial Over Alleged Design-Driven Addiction of Minors

Reddit Expands LLM Moderation Tool to New Subreddits as Moderators Push Back

WhatsApp Outage and Mass Account Suspensions Disrupt Users Worldwide

TikTok Agrees to Settle Three Bellwether Teen Lawsuits

New York Finalizes Age Verification Rules for Kids’ Social Media Access

Meta Brings Its AI Assistant Into Threads Direct Messages

Teen Drops Bellwether Suit, Ending Los Angeles Trial Against Meta

Instagram Lets Users Replace Audio on Published Posts

Facebook and Instagram Hit by Multi-Region Outage as Services Gradually Return

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram Hit by Wide Service Outage

UK Proposes Default Midnight–6am Social Media Curfew for 16‑ and 17‑Year‑Olds

UK to Block Nighttime Social Media for 16- and 17-Year-Olds

X Tweaks Algorithm to Surface Replies From Mutuals

European Commission Finds Facebook and Instagram Designed to Encourage Compulsive Use

EU Says Facebook and Instagram Were Designed to Create Addiction in Preliminary DSA Finding