#childsafety — Public Fediverse posts
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"Meta has denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement."
They don't fear fines. They fear competition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo #SocialMedia #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #TechRegulation #DigitalPolicy #Instagram #Facebook #PlatformAccountability #BigTech #CSAM #brussels #eutech
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Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion and impose daily time limits and nighttime blocks for teen users of Facebook and Instagram nationwide, settling a landmark lawsuit brought by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general over child safety.
Full breakdown on The Democracy Advocate: https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/tech-news/meta-16-7-billion-settlement/
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Meta Settles $18B Lawsuit With 29 States Over Child Safety
Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion and adopt sweeping child-safety reforms to settle landmark lawsuit alleging it designed platforms to addict children
https://pulseofnations.lol/meta-settles-18b-lawsuit/
#ChildProtection #ChildSafety #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Settlement #States #TechRegulation
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Meta agreed Aug. 26 to pay up to $17.1 billion and restrict teen engagement on Facebook and Instagram to settle child safety claims from 47 states. The deal ends a federal trial in Oakland. Judge approval and payment terms remain pending. https://www.implicator.ai/meta-17-billion-child-safety-settlement/ #Meta #ChildSafety #TechPolicy
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🔍 Oh joy, Meta's latest magic trick: turning child safety into a $16.68B headline. Because nothing says "we care" like a few lucrative zeros and begging you to turn off your ad blocker for the full story. 🤦♂️💸
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/ #Meta #ChildSafety #AdRevenue #ProfitTrick #SocialMedia #Ethics #News #HackerNews #ngated -
⁉️ Here’s WTF happened this week:
➡️ Read the full round-up: https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-49/
1️⃣ AI-generated tracks are not eligible for the ARIA Charts or the ARIA Awards from next week.
2️⃣ TikTok settled their child privacy case for $400 million as testimony in the Meta child safety case claims executives ignored harms.
#WTFnow #AI #AIandMusic #ARIA #ARIAcharts #ARIAawards #SocialMedia #ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #TikTok #ByteDance #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/08/25/new-zealand-under-16-social-media-bill-coalition-opposition-xcxwbn/
New Zealand is planning a social media ban for teens under-16, but coalition opposition leaves it short of committed votes and far from becoming law.
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Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial
"Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.
The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds” them on its platforms for as long as possible, “harvests” their data and then “hides” the truth from the public, she argued.
“Meta’s business model worked especially well for kids,” said Megan O’Neill, a lawyer for the state of California.
Her accusation opened the blockbuster trial against the US tech company on Tuesday in Oakland, California, just north of Meta’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. California has joined 28 other US states in suing the £1tn ($1.36tn) company for allegedly designing addictive products that lead to children being harmed."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy
#ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #DataHarvesting #News #HumanRights #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Activism
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: School Of Hard Blocks
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/21/ctrl-alt-speech-school-of-hard-blocks/
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Former Meta engineering director testified that Zuckerberg prioritized growth over child safety, with employee incentives tied to user engagement metrics. The lawsuit centers on whether Meta misrepresented addictive features to young users. implicator.ai/meta-engineer-zuckerberg-growth-child-safety/ #Meta #ChildSafety #TechAccountability
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⁉️ Here’s WTF happened this week:
➡️ Read the full round-up: https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-48/
1️⃣ Screen Australia has released Screen Currency 2026, 5 significant reports looking at the audiences, the industry and the economy of Australia’s screen and games industry.
2️⃣ OpenAI has launched a 'for Teens' offering for ChatGPT with stronger built-in safety protections and an educational focus.
#WTFnow #Screen #VideoGames #ScreenAustralia #ArtsResearch #AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #ChildSafety #OnlineSafety
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DATE: August 19, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: Opinion: I’m a pediatrician. AI chatbots are grooming my patients
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/ai-chatbots-children-grooming-mental-health/?utm_campaign=rss
“Can we talk … in private?” The man was nervous, hands wringing like a little boy in trouble, though he was perhaps a decade older than I am.
A minute later, we were seated in the tiniest exam room, the one off in the corner that we try to never use. (I’ve re-created the conversation here to the best of my recollection.)
Read the rest…
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/ai-chatbots-children-grooming-mental-health/?utm_campaign=rss
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Meta is facing a landmark trial that could change how Facebook and Instagram operate for young users.
Twenty-nine U.S. states allege that Meta used addictive design features, misled consumers about platform safety and improperly collected children's data.
The case could eventually lead to stronger age restrictions, changes to infinite scroll and major financial penalties.
https://thenewsink.com/meta-social-media-trial-landmark-case/
#Meta #Instagram #Facebook #SocialMedia #ChildSafety #TechNews #TheNewsInk
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Meta trial over social media harm to children begins
https://www.dw.com/en/meta-trial-over-social-media-harm-to-children-begins/a-78408050#boycottmeta #boycottusa #BoycottAmerica #boycotttrumpistan #trumpistan #childsafety #onlinesafety #socialmedia #addiction #MentalHealth #instagram #facebook #threads #zuckerberg #boycotttechbros
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Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning
#Canada #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Education #DigitalPrivacy #Schools #Students #Children #AIinEducation #EdTech #Teachers #ChildSafety #CriticalThinking #Tech
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Apple's 'Relax, it's iPhone' ad in Milan, showing a toddler with an iPhone, has sparked controversy in Italy. The children's rights authority is concerned about normalizing early digital exposure and has referred the matter to regulators. This highlights the need for ethical considerations in tech marketing, especially regarding children.
#Apple #iPhone #Advertising #ChildSafety #DigitalExposure #MarketingEthics
https://thedailytechfeed.com/apples-relax-its-iphone-ad-sparks-controversy-in-ita…
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When solons copy-paste bad social media rules into AI chatbot laws, kids lose. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-rules-to-protect-kids-risk-repeating.html #AI #ChildSafety #TechPolicy #ITIF #legislation
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before you take the child-safety talking points at face value…
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The digital texture hardens, grainy with biometric scans demanding ID or selfie matches before lawful content. On #texturetuesday consider #DigitalID laws during our period of #ImperialDecline. #SurveillanceCapitalism is surrendering anonymity to read a book or stream a show. 28 states now enforce this. #SCOTUS cleared the path in Paxton. The cost of #ChildSafety is lost anonymity. The state is normalizing checkpoints for adults. Access to culture shouldn't require showing ID. #SusanKlopferTruth
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DATE: August 11, 2026 at 05:00AM
SOURCE:
NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEEDTITLE: Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime?
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/well/family/children-safety-independence-laws.html
Some parents have been surprised to find themselves in the legal system’s cross hairs.
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/well/family/children-safety-independence-laws.html
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DATE: July 24, 2026
SOURCE: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONTITLE: The rise of ‘safety fatigue’ among parents
URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/health/parents-safety-fatigue-wellness
The volume of warnings, both real and exaggerated, urgent and negligible, gets so loud that parents lose the ability to tell them apart.
URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/health/parents-safety-fatigue-wellness
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The #UK's #DigitalID crusade has crossed the Atlantic. Five UK NGOs, #5Rights, #CCDH and their US fronts—mask foreign lobbying with #childsafety rhetoric while pushing laws that strip adults of online anonymity. The same system that arrests dissenters in London now fuels 21 state bills and a federal push to ban #VPN use. Under #FARA they hide true foreign control-Americans must engage in #SurveillanceResistance b4 this #SurveillanceCapitalism makes anonymity a cybercrime. https://www.effort.news/uk-lobby
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Meta was ordered to pay $942 million in New Mexico in a landmark child safety case. Our latest article outlines the court’s findings, implications for platform governance, and what organizations should consider regarding digital safety and compliance. Read the full analysis: https://wix.to/LdF1l3V