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Policy and technical efforts to shield minors online, spanning content moderation, age verification, and platforms' legal duty-of-care obligations.
Pornhub's parent company started reading Apple's device-level under-18 signal in May. Ofcom's investigation is about the testing Aylo did before it switched that over. The liability stays with Aylo.
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Discord's delayed age assurance starts this week, filing accounts as Adult, Teen or Unconfirmed from signals like account age, servers and games. The seven ways to prove you are 18 exist for the minority the model cannot place.
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ESET's guidance puts the US removal deadline at 48 hours from a valid request, and the study it cites counts 181 nudify sites drawing 40 million visits a month, so the filing path has to exist first.
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Roblox told its developer conference that creators earned roughly $1.7 billion in the year to 30 June 2026. The median of the 42,000 people in its payout program got about $1,500 of it, and the tier averages show where the rest went.
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New research counted roughly 350 of the ads on Meta's platforms, some built from images of real children, and lawmakers have said they will investigate. In the same week Meta launched a personal AI agent it says was built with security and privacy in mind.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted 332 AI-generated child sexual abuse ads across five markets in ten months, and 78 of the 84 it found in India ran after New Delhi ordered Meta to clear such ads off Instagram.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted the ads on Facebook and Instagram this year, several of them placed by Meta's own top-tier ad partners in China, and Meta pulled about 150 within hours of seeing the list.
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A second refused injunction leaves Minnesota's ban enforceable while the case proceeds, so the near-term cost lands on whoever owns the filter thresholds rather than on the constitutional argument xAI wants decided.
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The order denying xAI an injunction leans on a three-month filing delay rather than the First Amendment, which leaves the $500,000-per-image price live while the constitutional question the case turns on stays open.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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