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14.09.26 - 00:45
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California Enacts New Child Safety Laws On Social Media And AI Chatbots (ZeroHedge)
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California Enacts New Child Safety Laws On Social Media And AI Chatbots
Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed bills that restrict how social media companies may design products for children and that tighten rules for AI companion chatbots.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters in Stockton, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
He announced the package on X.
"I just signed the strongest kid safety laws for AI chatbots and social media in America," Newsom wrote. "California is banning addictive social media features for kids, cracking down on dangerous AI chatbots, and strengthening privacy protections for ALL kids. PROTECT OUR KIDS!"
The signing took place in Marin County, where Newsom was joined by his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and the legislators who carried the measures.
The social media bills focus on product design.
AB 1709, by Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal, a Democrat representing Long Beach, bars platforms from o...
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13.09.26 - 14:57
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Anthropic Bans Israeli Account Over Iran, Gulf Social Media Citizen Profiling (ZeroHedge)
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Anthropic Bans Israeli Account Over Iran, Gulf Social Media Citizen Profiling
Via The Cradle,
An operation run by or on behalf of the Israeli-Singaporean commercial intelligence vendor S2T Unlocking Cyberspace used Claude models to map, classify, and profile social media users across Iran and the Persian Gulf, according to a threat intelligence report published by Anthropic on 11 September.
(Photo credit: AP / Vahid Salemi)
The platform recorded the locations of users, sorted them as supporters or opponents of their governments, and grouped populations into six demographic categories covering urban, clerical, military, youth, diaspora, and rural.
Its output was written in formal Arabic and styled as official government communications, with sentiment scores broken down by Gulf nationality alongside recommended counternarratives.
The actor fed the model batches of roughly 25 social media posts at a time and directed it to return each poster's demographic group, location, and political leaning, ...
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12.09.26 - 10:31
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Linke für Social-Media-Regeln nur auf EU-Ebene (DPA-AFX)
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OLDENBURG (dpa-AFX) - Die Linke ruft Bundesbildungsministerin Karin Prien (CDU) dazu auf, vor möglichen gesetzlichen Regeln für einen besseren Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Social-Media-Anwendungen EU-Regelungen abzuwarten. "Wir müssen die Plattformen regulieren, ......
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10.09.26 - 06:57
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Philipp Jessen: Ohne Social Media kein politischer Erfolg (DPA-AFX)
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BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - Autor und Kommunikationsexperte Philipp Jessen bescheinigt den Parteien der Mitte fehlendes Gespür für die sozialen Medien. Trotz ihrer Ressourcen seien diese nicht in der Lage, die Plattformen richtig zu bespielen, sagte Jessen der ......
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08.09.26 - 09:57
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Streeck: Social-Media-Konsum drückt Pisa-Erfolg (DPA-AFX)
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BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - Wegen der schwachen Ergebnisse bei der Bildungsstudie Pisa fordert der Drogenbeauftragte Hendrik Streeck erneut Einschränkungen bei der Nutzung sozialer Medien. "Wie viel wissenschaftliche Evidenz brauchen wir eigentlich noch, bevor ......
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