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Mexico gives Meta, TikTok and X a month to restrict what minors see, with penalties left to a later bill

Sheinbaum signed a decree giving Meta, TikTok, X and other platforms one month to restrict minors' exposure to harmful content. The penalty is a bill the government says it would back, so the first cost is design work against a mid-November date.

YouTube calls its July 20 AI-content update a clarification of a long-standing inauthentic content rule

YouTube said on July 20 it wants to reward creators who use AI to enhance original storytelling over those who mass-produce generic content. A spokesperson called it a clarification of an existing policy, so creator programs are already subject to the rule.

Commission names infinite scroll and autoplay in preliminary DSA findings against Meta

European Commission findings of July 10, 2026 say Facebook and Instagram may breach the DSA through infinite scroll, autoplay and personalised recommendations. That adds interface features to ranking logic as a legal question for the largest platforms.

Broadcom and Intel CEOs say supply will limit AI infrastructure demand for three to five years

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Tan Lip-Bu told a Singapore forum on Oct 12 that AI infrastructure demand will keep growing for three to five years. Supply is the main limit, the Straits Times reported, though Hock Tan's own quoted words carry more conditions.

OpenAI lifts its Dublin hiring pledge 80% in three months to 450 roles

OpenAI said on Oct. 12 it will add 200 Dublin jobs to July's 250, taking its Irish pledge to 450 roles against more than 120 staff today. That is about 3.75 roles per current employee, in a city where Meta and TikTok have cut jobs this year, Bloomberg reported.

Six video platforms face a December 3 call on the Pentagon's execution livestream

Pentagon officials say the US will livestream the December 3 firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Every company that runs live video now has a fixed date to decide how it handles footage of a killing that the US government itself wants people to watch.

TikTok's Alabama settlement ties up to $183.8 million more to deals with other states

TikTok's $100 million Alabama settlement over 'addictive' features commits it to as much as $183.8 million more if other state attorneys general follow. For product teams, teen design rules now arrive one state deal at a time, with a payout tied to the next one.

Meta's ByteDance ad ban extends to any advertiser sending users to TikTok in seven markets

Meta has stopped running ads from TikTok owner ByteDance in the US and six other countries, and from third parties that send users to TikTok there. TikTok already refuses links that open rival social apps, so each platform now restricts how its users can reach the other.

TikTok ran a placebo safety tool on thousands of users over a staffer's objection, New York alleges

New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including children, a placebo Algo Refresh tool that confirmed a reset it never made. The unsealed complaint also quotes a TikTok well-being manager's written objection, documentary support for the state's claim that the company acted knowingly.

Meta tests Facebook and Instagram versions that open on full-screen video

Meta is testing a Facebook that opens straight into full-screen video for some users in India, with a possible US expansion hinted for 2027. Brands and creators who reach people through followers now have reason to measure how much of that reach depends on the feed these tests push down.

Ofcom investigates whether Meta risk-assessed Instagram's disappearing Instants before launch

Ofcom is investigating whether Meta carried out suitable illegal-content and children's risk assessments before launching Instagram Instants in May. For product teams shipping to UK users, the case turns on when the risk work has to be finished and how much of it counts.

Gen Z followers in a 26-person VCU study trust TikTok doctors over their own physicians

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers interviewed 26 Gen Z followers who found TikTok physician-influencers more credible than their own doctors. Followers said they buy what the doctors sell, though a sample this small cannot show how far the pattern extends.

London court weighs how much moderation data Ofcom can force from Meta, TikTok and X

Meta, TikTok and X are fighting Ofcom in a London court over moderation data demands under a law that allows fines of up to 10% of global turnover. The ruling sets how much the platforms must count and hand over, a week before Meta separately contests how Ofcom calculates fees and penalties.

TikTok brings one-click checkout and an AI shopping agent into the For You feed

Milk Dragon phishing kit relays shoppers' 3D Secure codes from fake brand discount shops

Group-IB tied the Milk Dragon phishing kit to 258 phishing pages and victims in 66 countries, baited with fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok. An operator then relays the victim's own 3D Secure code to approve the fraudulent charge.

Fabel Friet's TikTok queue puts a compliant chip shop's licence before an Amsterdam court

Amsterdam residents have taken the city to court over its licence for Fabel Friet, a TikTok-famous chip shop that 19 neighbours formally protested. A ruling due 12 November will test whether a shop that meets its queue and litter rules can still lose its licence.

Tokyo court extends publicity rights to the voice in Kenjiro Tsuda's AI clone suit against TikTok

Tokyo judge Aya Takahashi ruled that using a performer's voice without permission can infringe publicity rights, in Japan's first AI voice-clone case. Teams shipping synthetic narration there now have to judge whether a voice is being sold on who it sounds like.

Runway turns its in-house ad loop into a product that publishes to Meta, Google and TikTok

Runway launched Runway Ads, an ad loop publishing to Meta, Google and TikTok that Runway says lifted the company's weekly output from 77 to about 900 ads. The results come only from Runway's own campaigns, and its learning step runs on data from platforms building rival automation.

Nandy warns tech firms that Britain's under-16 social media ban is only a staging post

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.

Domain counts hide 90 Pinterest segment events in a captured WIRED homepage session

RuntimeWire says a captured WIRED homepage session sent Pinterest 90 audience-segment events plus fields labelled email_sha256 and fingerprint. That traffic sits in request bodies, where a tally of outside domains cannot see it.