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News Round-Up: Meta found CSAM ads, Irish regulator probes X over age-assurance, Snapchat sued over addictive design, California adopts, and UK proposes, online child protection laws (13-09-26) (opens the original)
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Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India - reportUS based campaigners find that Meta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months.Ads used photos of real children edited into sexual scenarios to promote an AI image alteration platform.About a quarter (84) of the ads ran in India and 78 of these were published after the Indian government’s order on removing CSAM and i
News Round-Up: New Mexico fines Meta another $567m, US Senate advances KOSA, Minnesota nudification ban takes effect, Roblox loses $10b of market value, Azeri social media ban (08/08/26) (opens the original)
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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giantNew Mexico rules that Meta’s platforms constitute a “public nuisance” and orders $567 million into a mental health abatement fund.Alongside the New Mexico civil penalty trial in March, this brings Meta’s total liability in the case to $942 million.The judge described Meta as akin to a factory, and the harm caused to children as “the pollution that must be abated.”$420 million of the fund is earmarked for trea
News Round-Up: Transparency EU AI Act rules enter force, DSA covers ChatGPT and Roblox, xAI sues Minnesota over nudification ban, EU law enters force with CSAM ban, 764 crime group profiled (31/07/26) (opens the original)
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EU AI Act deadline: what the Digital Omnibus will delayThe EU’s Digital Omnibus on AI entered into force on 27 July 2026, amending the AI Act and delaying the most demanding compliance obligations for high-risk AI systems.The deadline for standalone high-risk AI systems such as those covering employment decisions, biometrics, law enforcement, migration and border control, and the administration of justice has moved from 2nd of August 2026, to 2nd of December 2027.High-risk AI
News Round-Up: EU finds Meta design breaches DSA, TikTok breached EU rules, Parents warned over AI photo abuse, Big Tech AI failures in Australia, US lawmaker charged for Roblox grooming (24-07-2026) (opens the original)
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EU finds Meta’s addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of DSAThe European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta breached the Digital Services Act through the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.Features under investigation include infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalised recommender systems.The Commission found Meta did not adequately assess the risks of these features on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minor
News Round-Up: EU finds Meta design breaches digital rules, Big Tech targeted by potential fines, Telegram found hosting sexual predator and steroid selling group chats, Roblox conviction (12-07-2026) (opens the original)
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Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services ActAn EU Commission study into social media’s addictive design finds Meta in breach of EU rules.The Commission’s investigation indicates that Meta did not assess the risks of addictive design on wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults.The examples listed are highly personalised recommendations, autoplay and infinite scroll.Meta has a chance to respo
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