BBC News August 26, 2026 • 23:04

Meta's $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety - BBC

Meta's $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety - BBC

Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

Technically, the trial was about children's online privacy. It was based on a US law called the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which is nearly 30 years old and predates all of toda… [+28 chars]

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