The EU Kids Act, which is aimed at restricting children’s social media use, is already coming under fire for overreach and unintended effects.
“Traditional search advertising has long relied on keywords, but in an AI-driven world, people are expressing themselves in much richer ways,” said Bill Ready, chief executive of Pinterest. The company announced Visual Search Ads on 17 September at Pin…
Meta’s rules on AI deepfakes are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content”, the Oversight Board said on 17 September. The board ordered Meta to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook. The first …
Euka has built its business helping brands recruit and manage the creators who sell their products on TikTok Shop. Now, it wants to follow those brands onto other platforms. The creator economy startup is launching an Instagram integration alongside Sh…
“To be clear, the core experience in our apps stays free,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote on Threads on Tuesday, as Meta launched its Meta One subscriptions worldwide. Meta One is a new subscription service across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and M…
Strasbourg – The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, al…
The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. “No social media under the age of 1…
Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the rise of social media and smartphone use is largely to blame for the prominent decline in teen mental health since 2010. It quickly became a central rallying cry of the social media backlash. Haidt […]
Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta’s launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators, and businesses. Meta says the […]