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Young teen girls immediately hit with 'explosion' of sexually explicit messages and photos when they sign up for social media
The state of New Mexico conducted an undercover operation, "Operation MetaPhile," resulting in the arrest of three predators who used Meta platforms to solicit sex with someone they believed was a 13-year-old girl, highlighting the dangers faced by minors online.
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Young teen girls immediately hit with 'explosion' of sexually...
After seeing how truly terrible social media is for young teen girls -- and the level of abuse they endure from strangers who want to groom them and worse -- Raul Torrez felt there was only one way to fix things: by dragging executives from Meta into court to hold them accountable.
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Meta to Axe End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
Meta is removing end-to-end (E2E) encryption for Instagram DMs after first introducing the feature back in late 2023. E2E means that no one except the two parties messaging each other can read the message logs, including government entities, law enforcement, or even Meta itself.
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Opinion | Social Media Isn't Just Speech. It's Also a Defective, Hazardous Product.
Mr. Wu is a law professor who studies how companies manipulate customers, extract wealth and deepen inequality.
For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character.
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Closing arguments begin in landmark social media addiction trial
LOS ANGELES -- In closing arguments for the first social media addiction trial to make tech giants face a jury, the plaintiff's lawyer lambasted social platforms for profiting from users' attention, likening their features to a Trojan horse.
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Social media giants urged to tighten child safety after UK rejects blanket ban for teens
Meta urges Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts
Ofcom said it had written to social media platforms calling on them to report on what they're doing to keep children off their platforms, with a deadline of April 30 for them to respond.
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Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury will listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children using their platforms.
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UK watchdogs press Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube to block children
LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - Britain's media and privacy regulators on Thursday demanded that major social media platforms do more to keep children off their services, warning that companies were failing to enforce their own minimum age rules.
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Instagram Down -- New Outage Leaves Users Unable To Post Or DM
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.
It's not just you. Social media site Instagram is down globally, with people unable to post or reply to DMs on the platform.
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Alleged Rihanna shooter Ivanna Ortiz charged with attempted murder
Ivanna Ortiz, the Florida woman accused of firing an AR-15-style rifle at the Beverly Hills mansion of pop superstar Rihanna, has been charged with a slew of charges, including attempted murder.
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Bereaved parents accuse Starmer of lacking courage over failing to ban social media for children
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Keir Starmer has been accused by bereaved parents of lacking the courage to protect young people after he ducked a vote on banning social media for under-16s.
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X Adds Button to Block Grok from Editing Images, But It's Hard to Find
X, formerly Twitter, has added a button to block Grok AI from editing or modifying images uploaded to the platform.
The update, spotted by Social Media Today, arrives after X faced heavy scrutiny for letting Grok generate sexualized images of users under their posts.
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White House war promo videos marry action movies, sports and video games to real-life combat footage
Peaceful and violent, in video game screenshots and movie clips and on professional playing fields, the icons come fast and furious in quick-cut footage -- some of the most renowned slivers of 21st-century American popular culture, harnessed by the Trump administration to promote the freshly launched war with Iran.
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Master Chief actor condemns use of character in White House's Iran war hype video
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"Wake up, daddy's home," Robert Downey Jr. , playing the role of Iron Man, says at the beginning of a video posted to the White House's X account Friday.
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Some Maryland Instagram, Facebook users say Meta A.I. wrongly flags accounts for child exploitation
Several frustrated users of Meta's social media platforms told WJZ Investigates their Facebook and Instagram accounts have been unfairly disabled over allegations of child sexual exploitation, and they cannot get in touch with anyone at the company to get them restored.
