In December 2025, Australia became the first country to bar anyone under 16 from keeping or making social media accounts. The penalty for companies violating the law is a fine of up to $49.5 million ...

Our leader arguing that banning teenagers from using social media does more harm than good and the accompanying briefing touched off a lively debate among readers. Here is a selection of their letters ...

Tech giants, including Meta and Alphabet, are spending lavishly on splashy billboard ads, courting on-the-fence politicians and bulking up their ranks of lobbyists. By Vivienne Walt In November, Kim ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mark Zuckerberg appeared in a Los Angeles ...

Is tech rewiring childhood or exposing what's already broken? Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, and a Gen Z advocate debate social media bans, attention and what "fun" looks like off-screen. Guests ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questioning in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday about Instagram's under-13 users and Meta's efforts to boost engagement, as a trial examines whether the company ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Meta’s CEO is expected to answer tough questions ...

The trial's plaintiff says social media platforms are intentionally designed to hook children for profit. Credit: Kyle Grillot / Bloomberg via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a jury today ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled Wednesday about whether his company intentionally designed Instagram to be addictive, in front of the young woman accusing Meta and YouTube of hooking her as a ...

India is discussing age-based social media restrictions with social media companies, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday. Any crackdown in India, a country of 1.4 billion people, could have a ...

The government wants prosecutors to investigate X, Meta and TikTok, adding to a growing clash between the U.S. and Europe over regulating social media. By Jason Horowitz Jason Horowitz, the Madrid ...

Cabinet Secretaries Soipan Tuya (Defence) and Salim Mvurya (Sports) on Monday were caught in the crossfire of local politics during the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Thika Stadium in ...