On January 15, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, a case involving Texas H.B. 1181, which is a law that imposes an age-verification requirement for adult ...

Utah lawmakers advanced the App Store Accountability Act on Wednesday which, if passed, anyone in the state would have to ...

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s ambitious spending plans, predicting a “really big year” in ...

Lawmakers on Utah’s Capitol Hill advanced a bill that would require digital app stores to verify the ages of users in an effort to protect underage Utahns from accessing potentially harmful content ...

Legislation and discussion on age assurance has exploded globally, with major regulatory shifts ongoing in the U.S., UK, EU ...

SB142 would require app store providers — like Apple and Google — to verify the age of each user who downloads apps and would ...

Ritika Shroff had the typical Gen Z experience with social media. At 13, she signed up for Instagram, then Snapchat. Later, she downloaded TikTok and worked her way through other popular platforms.

The Nebraska ACLU told First Alert 6 the measure goes against free speech rights, which apply to teenagers like everyone else. They added that First Amendment rights do apply to social media platforms ...

Many social media users refuted a statement from Meta that official presidential accounts were not automatically followed for its Facebook and Instagram users.

A pornography exposure abuse survivor is speaking up about the importance of requiring pornography sites to use age ...

Photo-sharing app Pinterest is backing state laws that restrict cellphone use in classrooms amid a political reckoning over youth safety online.

The move is part of a global clean-up of accounts belonging to users who have lied about their age. Read more at straitstimes ...