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30.03.26 - 07:48
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Keir Starmer says UK will ′have to act′ to curb addictive features of social media (The Guardian)
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In his strongest intervention yet, PM says some features 'shouldn't be permitted', while education secretary says things 'are going to change'Keir Starmer has backed banning addictive social media features in his strongest intervention yet on curbs that could be placed on tech companies, saying the features “shouldn't be permitted”.The prime minister said the government was “going to have to act” on the algorithms that hook young people and children to social media, such as scrolling or “streaks” that encourage daily usage of apps. Continue reading......
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29.03.26 - 15:12
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Can′t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media (Bloomberg)
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In a landmark decision, Meta and Google were found negligent in the design and operation of their platforms making them hard to resist and causing serious harm to young users. Filmmaker and Director Matthew O'Neill joins David Gura and Christina Ruffini this morning on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss his film "Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media" that chronicles the effects of social media use. Watch the full interview on Bloomberg This Weekend and watch the show LIVE every Saturday and Sunday morning. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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29.03.26 - 12:18
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How Meta′s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial (The Guardian)
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Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companiesWhen Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sought to defend itself in the landmark social media addiction lawsuit alleging its products caused personal injury to a young user, it went on the offensive. The mental health problems that the 20-year-old known as KGM suffered since she was a child were not the result of exposure to harm on Instagram, Meta's lawyers and public relations team argued, but instead linked to her mother's parenting and her offline social problems.In a bench memo filed before the trial began, lawyers for Meta quoted excerpts from KGM's teenage text messages, personal writings and social media posts complaining about her mother. They combed through therapy notes and called on doctors to testify to examples of personal conflict. Throughout the proceedings, Meta's communications team sent reporters repeated updates from the trial and quotes from ...
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28.03.26 - 01:36
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The Guardian view on social media in the dock: tech bros move fast – society is trying to catch up | Editorial (The Guardian)
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Two court cases have shown how companies can be forced to take responsibility for their impact on public healthDebate about online harms has tended to focus on abusive and hateful content. But the form in which content is delivered is at least as important. That point is central to this week's momentous decisions against Meta and YouTube, by two US juries. It will take more than these cases to loosen big tech's tight grip on much of the world's attention. But the fact that both companies were found liable in California, for deliberately designing addictive products that harmed a child, is a massive win for the coalition of campaigners aiming to use the US courts to force the platforms to change their products.The second case against Meta, in New Mexico, found it liable over the use of Facebook and Instagram for child sex trafficking, with a Guardian investigation cited in the complaint. The jury ordered it to pay $375m in civil liabilities; the state's attorney general is seeking platform changes and ...
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27.03.26 - 16:06
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Österreich will Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder (Tagesschau)
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Lange wurde in Österreich über ein Social-Media-Verbot nach dem Vorbild Australiens diskutiert. Nun hat die Regierung beschlossen: Die Nutzung von Social Media für Kinder und Jugendliche unter 14 Jahren wird eingeschränkt....
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