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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to testify in major trial: What to know
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify in a landmark trial that examines whether social media platforms knowingly design products that plaintiffs say are addictive and harmful to children.
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Mark Zuckerberg to testify in watershed trial about impact of social media on children
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Mark Zuckerberg is set to give evidence in a landmark social media trial, which scrutinises whether Meta's platforms intentionally addict and harm children.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to be grilled on Wednesday by lawyers who say social media services like Instagram were intentionally designed as "digital casinos" to hook young people, fueling a teen mental health crisis.
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Mark Zuckerberg set to testify in watershed social media trial
Meta's CEO is expected to answer tough questions on Wednesday from attorneys representing a now 20-year-old woman identified by the initials KGM, who claims her early use of social media addicted her to the technology and exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts.
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Is YouTube down? What to know
YouTube experienced a widespread outage Tuesday evening in the United States and internationally, with users reporting blank homepages and error messages across YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids and YouTube TV, before the company said it had implemented a fix.
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NYC teen in need of bone marrow transplant helps boost donor registry, but is still seeking his own match
Vanessa Murdock is a member of the First Alert Weather Team, covering weekend evenings.
A New York City father's plea to save his son's life went viral and gave a big boost to the bone marrow registry, but they still haven't found a match.
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Social media ban for under-16s not a 'silver bullet', police claim
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A social media ban for under-16s is not a "silver bullet" to protect children online, senior police officers have warned Sir Keir Starmer.
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Mark Zuckerberg to face anguished parents at social media addiction...
All eyes are on Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is set to testify Wednesday in a landmark trial on social media addiction -- marking the first time the tech mogul must address youth safety claims directly before a jury.
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Grieving parents demand changes after 26-year-old son euthanized under controversial law
Maurine Molak shares her story after her 16-year-old son, David, died by suicide in 2016 and argues safeguards 'don't work' as tech giants face trial over the alleged addictive and harmful nature of social media platforms.
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Europe's privacy watchdog launches 'large-scale' probe into Elon Musk's X | CNN Business
The European Union's data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X over sexualised images generated by the social media site's AI chatbot, Grok.
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Tough questions -- and grieving families -- await Mark Zuckerberg at social media addiction trial Wednesday | CNN Business
Joann Bogard stood in a Capitol Hill hearing room two years ago and watched Mark Zuckerberg apologize to grieving parents who traced the deaths of their children to the online world he helped create.
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Tough questions -- and grieving families -- await Mark Zuckerberg at social media addiction trial Wednesday
Joann Bogard stood in a Capitol Hill hearing room two years ago and watched Mark Zuckerberg apologize to grieving parents who traced the deaths of their children to the online world he helped create.
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Factbox-From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access
Feb 17 (Reuters) - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.
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Grok faces more scrutiny over deepfakes as Irish regulator opens EU privacy investigation
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LONDON (AP) -- Elon Musk's social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland's data privacy regulator said Tuesday.
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AI chatbot firms face stricter regulation in online safety laws protecting children in the UK
Keir Starmer, UK prime minster, during a news conference in London, UK, on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.
Earlier, Ofcom, the UK's media watchdog, began an investigation into X reportedly spreading sexually explicit images of children and other individuals.
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Keir Starmer promises smartphone crackdown for under 16s within months
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Keir Starmer is vowing to enforce a crackdown on children and teenagers using smartphones within months to help keep them safe online.
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Barack Obama breaks silence on Donald Trump's racist post
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Barack Obama has broken his silence after President Trump shared a racist video of the former president and his wife Michelle Obama depicted as monkeys.
