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In Brazil, adolescents up to 16 must now have their accounts linked to that of a legal guardian. Brazil began implementing new measures on Tuesday to restrict minors' access to social media and ...

Hundreds of British teenagers are set to take part in a trial to find out how effective a ban or restrictions on social media would be. The six-week pilot will see 300 people aged 13 to 17 try out ...

For critics of tech companies like Meta and Google, Wednesday’s verdict in the social media addiction trial has been literally years in the making. Parents, child safety experts and some lawmakers ...

Among the 17m American children who use Instagram, the average time spent scrolling the app each day is 30 minutes. But for Kaley, a 20-year-old who started using social media aged six, it became an ...

A jury in Los Angeles determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using their platforms in a high-profile social media case. It's the first ...

Social media platforms are “not safe” for teens and are harming them at a “massive scale”, a new report has suggested. It said the current “algorithmic” design of platforms such as Facebook, Instagram ...

A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. By Cecilia Kang Ryan Mac and Eli Tan Cecilia Kang reported from ...

While most youth around the world are happier today than they were 20 years ago, it’s not true for the United States, other English-speaking countries and parts of Western Europe. That’s according to ...

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Australia’s world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for about three months. New data from a survey of 1,070 ...

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