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‘The penalty amounts are intentionally large, which reflects the significance of the harms the Bill is intended to safeguard against,’ the government says.
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman says digital platforms like Facebook and Amazon need to ‘urgently lift their game.’
The second day of a joint social media summit has kicked into gear, prompting discussions on how parents navigate the online realm and what rules could come.
Inland Revenue says the data it’s handing over is anonymised, but experts say the protection is too weak to be effective.
The eSafety commissioner is keen to understand how social media giants enforce age limitations.
Movie actor Mark Wahlberg revealed on social media that he begins his week by exercising at 2 a.m. on Sundays.
Deputy leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley said she is confident social media companies will find a way to implement the ban.
There is now bipartisan support in Australia for a social media ban for children under 16.
Social media-related nightmares can act as stressors, disrupting users’ sleep cycle and causing awakenings during the night.
The film has been viewed over 12 million times on X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk, who vowed to restore free speech.
Meta is facing dozens of separate legal complaints
WhatsApp is apparently back online, but some lingering issues are still being reported across other Meta services, engineering teams are investigating.
The Department plans to switch to other platforms.
Rob Bonta joined officials from across the U.S. to ask the company to secure users’ Facebook and Instagram accounts.
A Facebook official said it the outage has been resolved and was caused by a technical issue.
His mother said the popularity of a previous video on social media fueled his desire to do dangerous stunts.
New York City spends more than $100 million on youth mental health programs and services each year, according to the mayor’s office.
Parents told lawmakers that their children had been exploited, bullied, or molested online while using one of Mr. Zuckerberg’s many platforms.
At a hearing focused on stepping up liability social media and technology companies would face for the actions of their users, CEOs didn’t support new rules.
