X Corp. on Thursday admitted to contravening Australian online safety law in 2023 by not fully providing the country’s online-safety watchdog with information on how it was combatting child sexual-exploitation... (more story)

Meta Platforms, TikTok and Google are failing to adequately tackle fraudulent financial advertising on their platforms despite obligations under the EU’s Digital Services Act, according to complaints by Europe... (more story)

TikTok and YouTube will undergo increased UK regulatory supervision after refusing to make significant changes to recommender systems that determine what content children see on their feeds, online safety regu... (more story)

A Meta Platforms researcher told a New Mexico judge the company’s social media platforms generate great economic value for both users and businesses, in the ongoing trial of the state’s case against Meta over ... (more story)

TikTok is failing to effectively enforce its own rules for keeping under-13s out, according to a new report by a Spanish advocacy group that tested the video sharing platforms' controls. The report also voices... (more story)

The EU's push for digital sovereignty could have unintended consequences including higher costs for European companies and the need to use inferior cloud services, the head of a leading tech association said W... (more story)

Big Tech’s internal data is the subject of almost 50 access requests filed by researchers to date under the EU’s Digital Services Act, a European Commission official has said. While no researcher has yet obtai... (more story)

Social media platforms operating in Australia are mostly using age-estimation and data-inference tools — rather than age verification with government ID checks — to enforce the social media ban for children, t... (more story)