#Tech Regulation
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🇺🇸 Court allows Meta youth addiction lawsuit to proceed in Massachusetts
[USA]
A Massachusetts high court ruled Friday that the state attorney general's social media addiction case against Meta Platforms can move forward. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled the case c...
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🇺🇸 Meta must face youth addiction lawsuit by Massachusetts, court rules
[USA]
Related: #Consumer Protection, #Mental Health
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🇺🇸 The Trump administration is getting angry as EU Big Tech fines top $7 billion in 2 years
[USA]
The European Commission and Trump administration are increasingly clashing over the bloc's actions against U.S. tech companies.
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🇺🇸 Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits
[USA]
Related: #Legal Strategy, #Digital Advertising
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🇺🇸 Child exploitation rampant online while Big Tech blows chances to help nab predators
[USA]
Social media has made a mess of child exploitation, spawning a massive increase in reports but leaving the major tech firms struggling to turn over the kinds of details investigators need to track dow...
Related: #Online Safety, #Law Enforcement -
🇺🇸 London mayor takes aim at social media companies over disinformation
[USA]
Research published by City Hall found accounts aligned with the extreme right are among those smearing the capital online
Related: #Disinformation, #Urban Governance -
🇺🇸 A ‘Messy’ Cease-Fire, and a 15-Year Sentence for the ‘Ketamine Queen’
[USA]
Plus, the latest country planning to ban social media for teens.
Related: #Youth Safety, #Mental Health -
🇺🇸 A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
[USA]
Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech. There’s one case in New Mexico against Meta, and another in ...
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🇺🇸 Meta’s reckoning over kids safety is in the hands of two juries
[USA]
Two juries are currently deliberating a series of cases that could either usher in a legal reckoning for Meta, or maintain the status quo in an uphill battle to impose changes or penalties on tech pla...
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🇺🇸 Broadcom hit with EU antitrust complaint and request for interim measure
[USA]
Related: #Antitrust
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🇺🇸 Lina Khan was right
[USA]
In 2021, the virtual world was the future of the internet. The pandemic had sequestered everyone indoors, heightening the appeal of digital communities. Facebook rebranded to Meta - a sign of the tech...
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🇺🇸 China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Meta’s Acquisition of Manus
[USA]
The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.
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🇺🇸 Senators tell ByteDance to 'immediately shut down' Seedance AI video app
[USA]
Lawmakers say the new version of the Seedance AI video-generation app violates copyright and intellectual property laws.
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🇬🇧 Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure
[United Kingdom]
<p>The move, which lowers fees to 25%, is a breakthrough for Chinese developers Tencent and ByteDance</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-...
Related: #Market Adaptation -
🇬🇧 Big Tech backs Anthropic in fight against Trump administration
[United Kingdom]
A group representing tech giants called government action against Anthropic a "temper tantrum".
Related: #Political Conflict -
🇬🇧 UK PlayStation users could be owed billions
[United Kingdom]
Lawyers say Sony was able to set prices without competition.
Related: #Consumer Rights -
🇺🇸 CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Beijing can't afford another crackdown on its tech companies
[USA]
China's latest policy meetings underscored the importance of domestic tech innovation to national growth.
Related: #Economic Policy -
🇺🇸 Canada says it will let TikTok continue operations in the country
[USA]
Related: #Data Privacy
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🇺🇸 New Lawsuit Challenges Rubio’s Threats Against Foreign Tech Regulators
[USA]
A lawsuit filed on Monday argues that a State Department’s decision to withhold visas from experts who have pushed for stronger social media regulations is illegal.
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🇺🇸 Lawmakers just advanced online safety laws that require age verification at the app store
[USA]
A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and Republicans divided. On Thursday, lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy and Co...
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🇺🇸 Suit seeks to undo Trump approval of ByteDance TikTok US asset sale
[USA]
Related: #Legal Action
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🇺🇸 Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps
[USA]
In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading or updating ByteDance apps designed for the Chinese market.
Related: #US-China Relations -
🇺🇸 Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a fee
[USA]
Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to €0.1323 per "non-template message," depending on the country.
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🇺🇸 Families deserve a fair shot at protecting children online, not more of the same
[USA]
My bill, the Parents Over Platforms Act, gives parents that power.
Related: #Parental Rights, #Child Protection -
🇺🇸 Trump says he has told big tech companies to build their own power plants
[USA]
Related: #Energy Policy, #Economic Impact
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🇺🇸 California seeks injunction to stop Amazon’s alleged stifling of price competition
[USA]
Related: #Antitrust, #Market Competition, #Consumer Protection
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🇺🇸 Russia targets Telegram as rift with founder Pavel Durov deepens
[USA]
Kremlin steps up curbs against messaging app and promotes a state-backed rival
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🇺🇸 Inside the Big Tech Lobbying Machine Aiming to Halt Social Media Bans
[USA]
Tech giants, including Meta and Alphabet, are spending lavishly on splashy billboard ads, courting on-the-fence politicians and bulking up their ranks of lobbyists.
Related: #Corporate Lobbying, #Digital Governance -
🇺🇸 National Parent Teacher Association breaks ties with Meta amid child-safety trials
[USA]
Child-safety advocacy coalition ParentsSOS urged the National PTA to end other Big Tech partnerships due to child safety and well-being concerns.
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🇺🇸 West Virginia sues Apple, saying iCloud distributed ’child porn’
[USA]
Related: #Child Safety, #Privacy vs Security
Key Entities (45)
- Meta (7 news)
- Big Tech (5 news)
- Presidency of Donald Trump (3 news)
- ByteDance (2 news)
- TikTok (2 news)
- China (2 news)
- Donald Trump (2 news)
- Sadiq Khan (1 news)
- Online Safety Act (1 news)
- App store (1 news)
- Apple (1 news)
- Silicon Valley (1 news)
- European Commission (1 news)
- Broadcom (1 news)
- Google (1 news)
- Marco Rubio (1 news)
- State of the Union (1 news)
- Power station (1 news)
- Data center (1 news)
- Technology company (1 news)
- West Virginia (1 news)
- Instant messaging (1 news)
- Digital privacy (1 news)
- Surveillance (1 news)
- Pavel Durov (1 news)
- Massachusetts Attorney General (1 news)
- Jasveen Sangha (1 news)
- Child protection (1 news)
- Anthropic (1 news)
- Regulation of artificial intelligence (1 news)
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