#childsafety — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #childsafety, aggregated by home.social.
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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
https://the-14.com/before-schools-embrace-ai-canada-must-protect-childrens-learning/ -
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
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
> The ruling on Thursday is an addition to that fine, bringing the total amount Meta is responsible for to $942m.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
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FACEBOOK IS TOXIC. META IS AWFUL.
WHY CONTINUE FEEDING IT? 💎Nearly everyone complains about Facebook and Meta.
The algorithms are toxic.
The advertising is invasive.
The outrage is manufactured.
CHILDREN ARE BEING HARMED.
Privacy is disappearing.
And then millions of people open Facebook or Instagram.
Again.
And again.
I genuinely do not understand it.
If you believe these companies are damaging children, manipulating attention, and making billions from human vulnerability, why are you still giving them your presence?
Especially the parents.
If Facebook and Instagram are unhealthy for your children, what exactly are you modeling by remaining there yourself?
“We know this place is harmful, darling, but Mummy and Daddy have photographs to look at.”
I left Meta years ago.
I didn’t die.
My friends did not evaporate.
Civilization continued.
There is email.
There are phones.
THERE IS THE OPEN WEB.
There is even the terrifying possibility of seeing another human being, god forbid, in person.
Meta survives because people who complain about it continue supplying exactly what it needs:
Their attention.
Their relationships.
Their outrage.
THEIR CHILDREN.
You do not have to wait for Zuckerberg to become a better person.
You can simply leave today.
The door swings both ways.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works#Facebook #Meta #Instagram #SocialMedia #Algorithms #BigTech #DigitalWellbeing #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #Privacy #AttentionEconomy #TechEthics #SocialMediaAddiction #Zuckerberg #DeleteFacebook
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A New Mexico court ordered #Meta to pay $942 million after finding Facebook and Instagram contributed to youth mental health harms and child sexual exploitation.
Listen/Read: https://hackread.com/meta-fine-facebook-instagram-fine-children-harm/
#CyberSecurity #CyberCrime #Instagram #Facebook #ChildSafety
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The New Mexico First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe just doubled down on Meta ordering the company to pay $567M into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms. This second ruling is in addition to a previous ruling ordering Meta to pay a $375M fine. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta #Meta #SocialMedia #Facebook #Instagram #Fine #Safety #ChildSexualExploitation #Internet #Lawsuits #mentalHealth #NewMexico #ChildSafety
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Meta ordered to pay $567 Mn to US for 'public nuisance' and 'child harm'
