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How should governments balance child safety protections with access to social media platforms for teens and young adults?

Governments in the United States and abroad are weighing how far to go in restricting minors' access to social media, against concerns about free expression, pa…

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Should social media platforms bear legal responsibility for youth addiction and mental health harms?
A landmark trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, with opening statements beginning February 9, is testing whether social media companies can be held legal…
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How should governments balance child safety protections with access to social media platforms for teens and young adults?
Whether age-based bans are constitutional. Libertarian-tagged and one communist-tagged source argue such restrictions burden minors' protected speech and must s…
Should social media platforms bear legal responsibility for youth addiction and mental health harms?
Whether the science establishes that social media causes youth mental health harm. The independent reporting relays Meta's argument that researchers disagree ov…

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