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Thibault Camus/APOregon and California are among the more than 40 states that filed legal actions against Meta on Tuesday, alleging that the company intentionally designed features that hooked a generation of young people. -
OregonState.eduInstagram and other photo-sharing apps have been blamed for overcrowding on public lands. But research out of Oregon State University suggests social media isn’t a huge driver of visitation.
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Assembly member Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) said her proposal that would require large social media companies to pay a monthly “journalism usage fee” to news outlets will be delayed until 2024. -
California is considering banning the use of “reverse search warrants,” which compel tech companies to disclose the identities of individuals based on the location of their phone and internet search history. Abortion activists call it vital.
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A California bill would hold social media companies legally responsible for addicting kids to their platforms. Tech lobbyists, digital rights advocates, and others say the proposal would run afoul of federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
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President Biden signed a law banning nearly 4 million federal employees from having TikTok on their government phones, over national security concerns.
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Public health officials are discovering that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites may have exposed them to sexually transmitted infections.
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Some California lawmakers want to help parents protect their children’s mental health by targeting website elements they say were designed to hook kids.
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Tech industry groups are urging the Supreme Court to block a Texas law barring social media companies from removing posts or banning users based on political viewpoints
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The billionaire said it was a "mistake" for the social network to ban the former president after the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.
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Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen electrified Washington on Tuesday with testimony about how the company knew about potential harm to users and decided to hide that information.
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When a company can't use the internet's core protocols, it's as if its online domains simply don't exist. That happened to Facebook, creating a cascade of problems.
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Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.
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It's the latest government challenge over how Big Tech controls app stores. Officials say Google acts like a monopoly by abusing the power it has over how people pay for apps on Google devices.
