Meta last year left Chamber of Progress, a liberal-leaning tech group that counts Apple and Google as members. Since then, ...

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to ...

A subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein ...

Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and ...

Per Ofcom's rules, there are various ways that age checks can be done, including checking users' government issued IDs, ...

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, declined to offer an attributed on-the-record comment about the new age checks to The Verge. In unattributed statements to other outlets, it said it was “now ...

Technology trade group NetChoice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Mississippi from enforcing a law that requires age verification for users of social media.

Websites and apps will be legally forced to check the ages of children using their services under new Ofcom rules.

Meta is rolling out stricter safety settings for child-focused Instagram accounts and new teen DM tools amid intense ...