Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings

abcnews - Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #uk #reddit #gdpr #law #contentmoderation #safety #regulation

Reddit fined $20 million by UK for not effectively checking users’ ages

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UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

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ICO fines Reddit £14.47m over children’s privacy failures

10 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings

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UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate

10 days / theregister / Connor Jones

UK watchdog hits Reddit with record £14.47M fine over children’s privacy

10 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age check failings

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Bungie Confirms That Cheaters in Marathon Will be “Permabanned” When Caught, “No Second Chances”

David Carcasole / wccftech - Bungie's upcoming first-person PvEvP extraction shooter, Marathon, will be out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S in a little more than a week from the time of this writing, and as you might expect, there has been a lot of communication and marketing from th…

#cybersecurity #software #gaming #entertainment #ux #community #videogames #contentmoderation

Marathon Cheaters Will Get Permabanned On First Offense

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Bungie Confirms That Cheaters in Marathon Will be “Permabanned” When Caught, “No Second Chances”

11 days / wccftech / David Carcasole

Bungie says 'no second chances' if you're caught cheating in Marathon

11 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

Carly Page / theregister - Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic imag…

#ai #dataprivacy #techpolicy #computervision #aiethics #genai #gdpr #contentmoderation #regulation

Global data protection authorities warn generative AI companies against replicating real people

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Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor'

11 days / 404media / Emanuel Maiberg

Brussels’ privacy reforms stumble out the gate

11 days / politico / Ellen O'Regan

Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

11 days / theregister / Carly Page

UK among dozens of nations demanding ‘urgent’ action on AI image generation

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #media #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

11 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

UK fines porn company £1.35 million for lack of age checks

11 days / mashable

Ofcom fines porn site £1.35m for lacking age checks

11 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #chatgpt #canada #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)

ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.

OpenAI Flagged and Blocked Canadian School Shooter’s ChatGPT Account Months Before Attack - pragativadi.com

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Suspect in Tumbler Ridge school shooting described violent scenarios to ChatGPT

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Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

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Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT activity flagged internally 7 months before tragedy. It was identified in June 2025 for “abuse and detection and enforcement efforts"

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ChatGPT account linked to B.C. mass shooter banned for violating policy, company says - CTV News

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Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.

OpenAI employees raised alarm about mass shooting suspect months ago: report

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OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

13 days / reddit / /u/jamestown30

OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats

13 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

OpenAI staff debated alerting Canadian police about violent ChatGPT logs months before a deadly school shooting

13 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.

OpenAI did not mention Tumbler Ridge shooter’s posts in meeting with B.C. officials day after mass shooting: province - The Globe and Mail

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OpenAI contacted RCMP about Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT account after attack - The Albertan

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Shooter's ChatGPT Ban Sparks Global Debate on AI Safety - streamlinefeed.co.ke

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Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.

A South Korean female serial killer learned how to kill people with sleeping pills through ChatGPT

12 days / reddit / /u/North_Penalty7947

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

BeauHD / slashdot - Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major…

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #techpolicy #uk #apps #gdpr #hack #technology #contentmoderation #digitalid

They Want To Age Verify Our Computers Now...

12 days / reddit / /u/InsaneSnow45

Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another

12 days / reddit / /u/Turbostrider27

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

12 days / theregister / Connor Jones

Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here's how

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Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK

14 days / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Hackers Expose Discord Age Verification System Issue After Persona Frontend Code Left Wide Open

14 days / reddit / /u/vriska1

San Diego County Demographics, Discord, ChatGPT-4o, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, February 16, 2026

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Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #internet #cybercrime #wikipedia #community #media #censorship #contentmoderation #research

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

13 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Wikipedia blacklists website that hijacked users’ computers to run hacking attack - The Times of India

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Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives — website operator caught tweaking their own archive

13 days / tomshardware

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links | If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

14 days / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures

14 days / ycombinator

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

14 days / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’

Jude Cramer / fastcompany - When word started circling that AMC Theaters was screening an AI-generated short film, the internet’s cinephiles took it personally.On Wednesday, some social media users reported that the short was playing in the pre-show before trailers at select AMC loc…

#ai #movies #entertainment #aiethics #genai #culture #media #films #contentmoderation #advertising

AI: The Best Supporting Actor You’ll Never See

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AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’

14 days / fastcompany / Jude Cramer

AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar

14 days / slashdot / msmash

AMC Theatres Blocks AI Short Film From Screening in Pre-Show Advertising

14 days / decrypt / Vismaya V

Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mark Zuckerberg has testified he reached out to Tim Cook on teen wellbeing as Meta faces a landmark trial alleging its platforms were designed to addict youth.The post Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial appeared first on WinBuzze…

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #law #contentmoderation #litigation #algorithm #safety #timcook

National Parent Teacher Association breaks ties with Meta amid child-safety trials

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A new study finds that longer daily social media use was associated with predominantly negative outcomes for 60% of adolescents, but not all platforms are the same. The variances point to the opportunity for more nuanced regulation than blanket bans, writ

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Apple and Meta Called It Privacy. The Courts Call It Willful Blindness.

14 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare

14 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Researchers Embrace Complexity in Social Media and Teen Mental Health

14 days / techpolicy

Privacy is at the center of child safety accusations against Apple and Meta. Here’s why

14 days / cnbc

Engadget Podcast: Instagram on trial and the RAMaggedon rages on

14 days / engadget / Devindra Hardawar

Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial

14 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

How Meta’s high-stakes trial could have ripple effects across other industries

14 days / fastcompany / Chris Morris

LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'

14 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

Steve Dent / engadget - Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its "AI-powered, multi-layer protections" are d…

#ai #cybersecurity #automation #mobile #google #android #apps #contentmoderation #safety

Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025 - TechRepublic

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AI-powered defenses help Google shield Android users from malicious apps - TechSpot

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AI-powered defenses help Google shield Android users from malicious apps

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AI-driven defences reshape Google Play’s security landscape - Tech Edition

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Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps From Entering the Play Store - Cyber Press

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Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps From Entering the Play Store

14 days / cyberpress / AnuPriya

Google boosts Android security with AI against malware in 2025 - Пепелац Ньюс

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Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

14 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Google prevented 1.75 million malicious apps from Play Store in 2025

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Google (GOOGL) Stock: Gains Amid AI-Driven Play Store Security Boost

14 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

BeauHD / slashdot - The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #internet #us #globalism #dos #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

14 days / theregister / Carly Page

US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content

14 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Metadata, cloud sovereignty’s weak spot

14 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content | Internet

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A new US government site could help users worldwide access blocked content

15 days / techspot

Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #mentalhealth #law #contentmoderation #instagram #litigation #safety

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

15 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Zuckerberg's Trial Testimony Pushes Back on Social Media Addiction Claims

15 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/zuckerberg-grilled-in-court-over-social-media-harms-on-teens/

15 days / bsky / @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies in Social Media Addiction Trial

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Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

15 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Mark Zuckerberg said very little on his first day of testimony—but the fact he’s here at all is a major moment

15 days / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

15 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …

#cloud #techpolicy #cloudsec #apple #government #us #law #contentmoderation #litigation #digitalprivacy

The legal fight that could force Apple to rethink iCloud design

15 days / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Sued Over Allegations of CSAM on iCloud

15 days / cnet / Corinne Reichert

Remember in 2022 when Apple killed its plan to detect CSAM stored in iCloud accounts? (There was a huge uproar from privacy advocates.) Now West Virginia is suing Apple over the decision. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/a...

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Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials

15 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

15 days / appleinsider

Apple sued by West Virginia for alleged failure to stop child sexual abuse material on iCloud, iOS devices

15 days / cnbc

West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Child Sexual Abuse Material

15 days / nytimes / Kalley Huang

New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - News laws requiring tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without the consent of the subject within 48 hours are set to come into effect. Through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, online platforms could face fines of up to 10% of t…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

A new UK law would give platforms 48 hours to act on abusive content.

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UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

15 days / theregister / Joe Fay

New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

15 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Platforms must take down abusive content under proposed UK law

15 days / siliconrepublic / Tim Barnwell

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law

15 days / reddit / /u/plain_handle

Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Is Valuable, Not Harmful, in Social Media Addiction Trial

Eli Tan / nytimes - Meta’s chief executive said users spent a lot of time on the app because of its value, as he was grilled about child safety issues in front of a jury.

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #law #facebook #contentmoderation #instagram #litigation #safety

Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety (5)
Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk (4)
Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases (2)
Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals (9)
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Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety

Eighteen Experts Said No. Zuckerberg Said Yes.

15 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Buck-passing Zuckerberg ropes Apple into his defense in social media safety trial

15 days / appleinsider

Meta (META) Stock: Zuckerberg Discussed Youth Well-Being With Tim Cook

15 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Mark Zuckerberg overruled 18 wellbeing experts to keep beauty filters on Insta

15 days / ycombinator

Zuckerberg Called Child Safety 'Paternalistic.' This Time, a Jury Heard It.

16 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk

‘This is very serious’: Judge threatens AI glasses wearers with contempt during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony

15 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Judge warns smart glasses wearers of contempt charges as Zuckerberg testifies in Meta trial

15 days / techspot

Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court

16 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Mark Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, No Meta Ray-Bans Allowed

16 days / gizmodo / Matt Novak

Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases

From Paris to New Delhi, the Push to Ban Teens From Social Media Is Going Global

16 days / wsj / Sam Schechner

Social media on trial: tech giants face lawsuits over addiction, safety, and mental health

16 days / theverge / Verge Staff

Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals

Zuckerberg Denies Meta Maximized Teen Engagement in Landmark Trial

15 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony

16 days / wired / Miles Klee

Zuckerberg grilled about Meta's strategy to target 'teens' and 'tweens'

16 days / npr / Bobby Allyn

Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be 'useful'

16 days / engadget / Karissa Bell

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies During Landmark Trial On Social Media Addiction

16 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Mark Zuckerberg in courtroom hot seat over social media dangers

16 days / mashable

Meta CEO testifies in landmark social media addiction trial

16 days / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Is Valuable, Not Harmful, in Social Media Addiction Trial

16 days / nytimes / Eli Tan

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals, Underage Users at California Trial

16 days / wsj / Meghan Bobrowsky

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Mark Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, No Meta Ray-Bans Allowed

16 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

'I do not trust them' - top streamers left concerned by Discord age checks

bbc - The platform's plan to roll out global age checks has caused concern in streaming communities.

#gaming #dataprivacy #techpolicy #streaming #internet #apps #community #contentmoderation #digitalid

TeamSpeak Reports Massive Surge of New Users Following Discord Verification Requirement

16 days / techpowerup

Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel

16 days / reddit / /u/ph-sub

'I do not trust them' - top streamers left concerned by Discord age checks

17 days / bbc

Discord Rival Maxes Out Hosting Capacity As Players Flee Age-Verification Crackdown

17 days / slashdot / BeauHD

TeamSpeak sees massive surge as frustrated Discord users jump ship

17 days / techspot

Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die

mashable - Meta recently won a patent for an LLM that would simulate users' accounts and post, like, and comment on their behalf, including for the accounts of people who have died.

#ai #techpolicy #meta #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #intellectualproperty #digitalprivacy

Meta’s “After You Die” AI Just Got Patented

16 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die

17 days / mashable

Meta patents AI that could continue posting on social media on behalf of deceased users

17 days / techspot

Meta patents AI that lets dead people post from the great beyond

17 days / fastcompany / Chris Morris

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

#techpolicy #government #uk #mentalhealth #australia #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy #regulation

Australia's ban: reports show harms for disabled and isolated youth (2)
Parliamentary push: UK and allies seek age-based social limits (7)
Platforms and studies: age checks, user exodus, and Meta research (2)
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Australia's ban: reports show harms for disabled and isolated youth

Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

17 days / techdirt / Mike Masnick

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

17 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Parliamentary push: UK and allies seek age-based social limits

More countries weigh social media bans for children

17 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

UK Considers Australian-Style Social Media Ban for Under-16s - Central News South Africa

17 days / co

UK Govt to Seek New Powers from Parliament to Restrict Social Media Use for Children

17 days / medianama / Rohit Singh

Turkish Parliament set to debate age limit for social media | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

18 days / dailysabah

Starmer pledges to act in ‘months not years’ to protect children on social media - Wandsworth Times

18 days / wandsworthguardian

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK - theregister.com

18 days / theregister

PM: “No platform gets a free pass”: Government takes action to keep children safe online - GOV.UK

19 days / gov

Platforms and studies: age checks, user exodus, and Meta research

Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use

17 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification

17 days / ycombinator

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An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.

17 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/metas-own-research-found-parental-supervision-doesnt-really-help-curb-teens-compulsive-social-media-use/

17 days / bsky / @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

17 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Europe probes Shein's addictive app design and illegal product sales

Andre Revilla / engadget - The European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into low-cost fast fashion retailer Shein. EC officials are concerned about the sale of illegal products, including child sexual abuse material, as well as the potentially addictive design of its sh…