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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…