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UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media

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Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the countries surveyed. The findings come from “Through Children’s Eyes: How Digital Technologies Enable Child Sexual Abuse”, […]

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X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

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X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they […]

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Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

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Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It’s also renaming the “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that’s not a real human being. “We’ve heard that people don’t like seeing a profile […]

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South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America

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South Korea’s media regulator has said that Meta’s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding statement with a substantial ask inside it. The measures in question come from Meta’s settlement with US state attorneys general, and the company has already […]

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Pennsylvania sued Snap using an account it opened as a 13-year-old

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Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat. The case rests on a 13-year-old account, opened on a new iPhone by an investigator in the attorney general’s office before the filing. What that account could reach is the evidence. Attorney General David Sunday filed the complaint on 25 August in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. It […]

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Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters

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X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is seeking legal advice. XCancel, the best-known site built on Nitter, has also stopped operating. Sarah Perez has read one of the letters and […]

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Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

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Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states’ case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, […]

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Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

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Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal data of children who used its platforms. Diana Novak Jones reported the figure for Reuters on […]

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