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Civil suits and court orders holding social platforms responsible for design-driven harms, including public nuisance theories.
A year after promoting the under-16 social media ban at the UN, Anthony Albanese is legislating a digital duty of care and an algorithm opt-out. The enforcement that has changed Meta's products so far came from Europe and the US.
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Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion to settle youth-safety claims from 47 states and thousands of families, five years after a content governance proposal carried the company's independent holders and lost on Mark Zuckerberg's ballot.
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The Solicitor General's suit asks ten times what the data regulator itself could fine, and the agency has opened proceedings against 22 platforms. Enforcement in Brazil now arrives with invoice numbers.
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Twenty-nine state attorneys general are litigating default data collection and age assurance in federal court, after two adverse outcomes against Meta. Age checks are now a liability line item.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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Arturo Bejar's sworn testimony in Oakland turns "we didn't know" into a documentary question, and puts every executive's internal warning record on the exhibit list.
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