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France, Spain, and Greece are jointly advocating for mandatory age verification on social media platforms like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), Bloomberg reported. Digital governance ministers from the three EU countries are coordinating proposals ahead of a June 6 meeting…

A recent BBC investigation revealed that young teenagers are quickly exposed to troubling content on popular social media platforms shortly after joining. Researchers created six fictional profiles representing 13- to 15-year-olds on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Within minutes of activity,…

A group of British parents who lost children to online harms joined U.S. and Canadian families in protesting outside Meta’s New York offices, demanding stricter social media safeguards, BBC reported. The demonstration coincided with new UK regulations requiring websites to…

Meta is enhancing safety measures for teenagers on Instagram by restricting livestreaming for under-16s unless they have parental permission, The Guardian reported. This change also applies to a new teen account system being rolled out on Facebook and Messenger, which…

New research from Eko, a corporate responsibility nonprofit, has found that social media giants Meta and X approved numerous ads containing violent anti-Muslim hate speech in the lead-up to Germany’s federal elections, TechCrunch.com reported. The study revealed that both platforms…

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on global leaders to persuade the United States to reverse its decision to withdraw from the agency, Arab News reported. During a recent closed-door budget meeting, Tedros emphasized that the…

The US Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban by Sunday, citing national security concerns, Al Jazeera reported. The court ruled that the law, passed by…