social media platforms

Social media platforms are digital services that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. They operate as online communication channels and are subject to increasing regulatory scrutiny.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to widespread legal and regulatory actions targeting their practices, particularly concerning child safety, user addiction, and accountability for content.

Latest on social media platforms

• EU KIDS Act to restrict social media platforms’ access to children in the EU
• Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
• Representatives of social media platforms like Google, Meta appear before parliamentary panel on IT
• Par panel summons Instagram, others over social media platforms regulation
• Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification
• Singapore may block under-18s from social media platforms that fail child safety standards: Josephine Teo
• The European Union is preparing new protections against social media platforms targeting children
• Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off.
• New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Monday his party would introduce a bill in parliament that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, proposing fines of up to 10 per cent of a ‌platform's global revenue for non-compliance.
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• Social media platforms spent years training algorithms to flag violent extremism — and Swedish police are now investigating whether the attacker radicalized entirely within communities those same platforms failed to remove.
• Europe's social media ban takes effect in 90 days

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