He beat Big Tobacco. Will the same playbook work against Meta and social media?

Mike Moore beat Big Tobacco. Will the same playbook work against Meta and social media?

Meta, the social media giant, will pay $1 billion and implement new child safety regulations on its platforms as part of a settlement with the state of Texas.

Meta's deal with the US states requires a two-hour daily limit, a midnight to 6 am block, and muted notifications between 8 am and 3 pm for children under 18.

It is hard to preserve any sense of nuance when social media incentivises uncompromising radicalism Source

Tech titan, under obvious duress, has produced an impactful and technically feasible list of ways to finally start to put things right

Hours after the social media giant Meta agreed last Wednesday to settle a case brought by 47 state attorneys general and implement reforms to protect children from social media harms, the Illinois Federation of Teachers issued a demand that all of Illinois’ portion of the $17.1 billion settlement — $768 million — be de

Illinois will spend Meta settlement cash on social media harms, AG says, after union pushes education funding  Chicago Tribune

Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children.

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Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a long time.

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

From Australia to India, other countries have also been cracking down on the use of social media by teens.

As part of an $18bn settlement in a child-safety lawsuit, Meta announced new restrictions on its apps. We asked families what they thought.

A major lawsuit has led Meta to change the rules again for young users on Instagram and Facebook. Here’s exactly what’s changing.