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EU says TikTok hasn’t done enough to ensure minors' safety
The latest findings could come with a fine of up to six percent of TikTok’s annual revenue.
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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff
While the company is trying to protect creators from AI, it still thinks the technology is changing how it does business.
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Meta's pro-AI ad campaign is conspicuously light on AI
The company wants people to be anti-doomer, but doesn't say why.
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France will ban social media for children under 15
The country's new law also bans the use of mobile phones in schools.
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There's now an API for mainlining Trump's Truth Social posts
The API is supposed to deliver posts from 'the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.'
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Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, is investigating TikTok's child safety measures
The regulator is assessing whether the platform is doing enough to protect children from harmful content.
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The Oversight Board says leading AI models might be restricting free expression
The group is trying to extend its influence beyond Meta.
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Europe takes step toward social media ban for kids
Following a worrying new report, Europe is taking steps toward barring children from using social media.
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Elon Musk says X will DM you about posts that receive a Community Note
The social platform wants its crowd-sourced corrections to be harder to ignore.
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A bug in Discord's safety systems incorrectly banned accounts since May
A bug may have led to around 8,200 erroneous bans on Discord.
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The X app for iOS now has a built-in video editor
X now has a built-in video editor on iOS.
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Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in state lawsuits over social media addiction
Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.
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X is making a fresh push for live video with new creator payouts
X has launched a new live streaming command center and additional creator payouts.
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Half of social media child safety features don't work, report claims
A new report found half of social media safety features intended to keep children safe online do not work as claimed.
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Australia doubles the maximum penalty for its social media ban
The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million.
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YouTube settles early test case over social media harm to children
Google has settled a lawsuit with a minor known who claimed that social media platforms harmed them.
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The Oversight Board says Meta needs to do more to protect regular people from sexualized deepfakes
Meta's Oversight Board has made several suggestions to make reporting sexualized AI deepfakes easier and more effective for ordinary people.
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At least one UK government department is reportedly done with X
UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer.
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Meta's Threads app now has half a billion monthly users
Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.
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UK will ban social media for children under 16
The UK is following Australia by banning young people under 16 from TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms.
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Bluesky will launch Reddit-style communities this year
Bluesky is launching a communities feature this year, according to its head of product.
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Canada announces bill banning social media for anyone under 16
The regulation also imposes new safety expectations on 'AI chatbot services.'
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After Belfast riots, UK reminds social platforms they're obligated to remove hateful content
The UK's communications regulator has reminded social media platforms they have a duty to minimize hateful content, not encourage it.
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Snap will no longer allow younger teens' Spotlight videos to be publicly viewable
Maybe it wasn't a great idea to let 14-year-olds post videos to Spotlight in the first place.
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Even Meta's Oversight Board thinks its rules for banning accounts are baffling
The group has "due process concerns" over how the company handles account bans.
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