First social media came after teens. Now AI is doing the same thing

Two major things that may at first seem unconnected are happening in tech this week. In a California court, 29 attorneys general are bringing a lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, alleging the company knowingly designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled the pub

"I would rather do the lesser time than spend the next 53 years of my life behind bars."

Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee pray beside the ruins of a burned church near Dawson, Ga., in 1962. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of an infamous terror attack: the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. On that Sunday morning, members o

George Bacon arguably makes a living from young people scrolling. But he says a social media ban for under-16s is logical and responsible.

We were joined by the lawyer Matthew Bergman, founder of the Social Media Victims Law Centre.

The NAACP announced on Monday it had joined the legal team representing the family of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black teen whose body was found on a Mississippi barrier island last month after a Fourth of July trip with three white friends.