social media companies

Social media companies are businesses that operate online platforms allowing users to create and share content or participate in social networking. They are currently facing increased legal and regulatory scrutiny over their practices related to protecting underage users.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to significant lawsuits, proposed new laws, and public opinion polls demanding greater oversight and accountability for their handling of children's safety on their platforms.

Latest on social media companies

• Social media companies are trying harder to know which users are kids
• A look at major lawsuits against Meta, other social media companies over harms to kids
• Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
• Three in five Americans favour stronger oversight of social media companies: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• allowing it to compel social media companies ‌to provide evidence of what they have done to stop under-16s from getting an account
• TikTok Kicks Off Agentic Commerce Push With AI Shopping Assistant
• Australia steps up response to AI after OpenAI bot breaches health system database
• US warns Australia's social media algorithm reforms risk 'facilitating censorship'
• Australians could opt out of social media algorithms under proposed law

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