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Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B — and agrees to massive changes that may be almost impossible to enforce

By Lance Ulanoff Published

Meta just settled the huge US multi-state case against it, alleging the social media giant's products harm teens. It's paying $18B— but are the promised product changes enough to truly protect teens?

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Meta might be on the hook for $1.4 trillion if it loses a landmark lawsuit — what would that mean?

By Lance Ulanoff Published

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are about to face their toughest trial yet. How the huge State AG's lawsuit could force Meta to make some difficult decisions.

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Trump administration removes TikTok ban on government phones, so employees are now free to doomscroll once again

By Benedict Collins Published

The US government has lifted the ban on TikTok being installed on government devices.

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New Mexico judge calls Meta a 'public nuisance' that's a polluting factory

By David Nield Published

In the second phase of the landmark New Mexico case, the judge says Facebook and Instagram are major polluters.

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Jimothy is in Roku City! The inside story of how the viral raccoon climbed inside the streaming platform

By Lance Ulanoff Published

Jimothy Raccoon, the squat, viral Seattle-based mammal, is now immortalized inside Roku City. Here's how that happened

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MySpace returns—again. No surprise; I'm shocked it's not the first all-AI social platform

By Lance Ulanoff Published

Myspace's owners promise a revival, but with myriad questions about the relaunch swirling, we can reach only one likely and unfortunate conclusion.

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Should phones be banned in schools? A new poll suggests 77% of adults favor a classroom ban

By Alex Whitelock Published

A new poll suggests that an overwhelming majority of adults support a classroom ban on phones. TechRadar readers can make their opinion known here.

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TikTok says AI-generated spam ‘crowds out original creators’

By Graham Barlow Published

TikTok is launching a new in-app hub to help you spot AI-generated content as it cracks down on AI slop.

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Do you reach for your phone as soon as you wake up? I spoke to psychologists to find out why doing so is ‘really not good’ for our brains

By Jamie Richards Published

Ever wondered why you reach for your phone in the morning? I spoke to two psychology experts to get to the bottom of the morning scroll.

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Careless People made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write

By Graham Barlow Published

Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.

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