Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, […]
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will avoid what likely would’ve been a disastrous, high-stakes trial.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will avoid what likely would’ve been a disastrous, high-stakes trial.
Gossip Goblin filmmaker Zack London is building strange AI worlds, resisting algorithms and betting his films can ultimately outlast the AI label.
Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control softwar…
Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app’s “Take a Break” feature “helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped”, as internal documents showed only 1.8% of teenagers used it. Meta’s public blog post at t…
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It…
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this w…
Owl & Co’s $150 billion vertical video forecast shows distribution, not production cost, is the real advantage as platforms capture 94% of the market.