YouTube’s Shorts Series comes as microdramas pass 6.5 billion views. But while YouTube monetizes attention, dedicated apps make money when viewers keep watching.
YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on F…
A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Facebook deceived users about how it protected their data, including in its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Jurors found more than 43 million violations of the state’s consumer protectio…
Discord has started a global rollout of age checks that place users into age groups, with extra safety settings for teenagers. The rollout began on 22 September and will take several days, the company said in a blog post by chief technology officer Sta…
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TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100m to settle the state’s lawsuit over the app’s effect on children, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said on Friday. The case had been due to go to trial on Monday. The first payment is due within 45…
Prince Harry has warned that AI companion chatbots are repeating social media’s harm to children, with technology that is “more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful”. He spoke on Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Two years…
Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like. “If we want to play football, we won’t be able to organize it. …
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Meta’s lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens’ safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document […]