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EU social media age curbs to be proposed after summer, Von der Leyen says July 13, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Social media and other digital platforms operating in the EU are to face new child-access restrictions, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, with a proposal to be presented after ... (more story)

US DOJ's Mimi Vishio to leave Antitrust Division July 10, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

Mimi Vishio, the acting director of civil enforcement at the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, is leaving the agency, MLex has learned, marking yet another high-profile departure in recent months.

Big social media firms would have to give users more feed control under UK plans July 10, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, X and other platforms listed on the top tier of a new UK online safety register would need to give users a chance to filter out harmful but legal content on their feeds under plans p... (more story)

Uber Eats, Airbnb face UK online safety duties, Wikipedia avoids top tier July 10, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Uber Eats, Airbnb, Quora and ChatGPT Search are among the less expected services to face additional UK online safety duties, sector regulator Ofcom's long-awaited first categorization register shows. Facebook,... (more story)

Online platforms failing on scam ads, UK's Ofcom says as it unveils draft codes July 10, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Patricia Figueiredo

Social media and search platforms would have to establish stronger systems to detect and remove fraudulent advertisements, verify advertisers and test artificial intelligence advertising tools for vulnerabilit... (more story)

Meta faces EU warning over addictive design of Facebook, Instagram (update*) July 10, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Meta Platforms is breaching the EU’s Digital Services Act through the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram, the European Commission found on Friday. The probe focuses on features including infinite scrol... (more story)

China AI chat apps pull agent features ahead of emotional-companion rules July 10, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's leading artificial-intelligence chatbot providers are removing intelligent agent functions from their flagship consumer apps ahead of sweeping new rules governing AI virtual companions and emotional-su... (more story)

Zuckerberg, Mosseri, Spiegel ordered to appear at US social media trial July 09, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel must testify at a second bellwether US trial in litigation over social media’s alleged harm to youth mental... (more story)

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Epic, Google return to US court as economist questions revised Play injunction July 14, 2026 | Alex Wilts

Google and Epic Games will return to US court Thursday for another attempt to secure approval of a settlement in their long-running antitrust dispute over the Play Store. But concerns from a court-appointed ec... (more story)

Broad range of digital services to face EU under-13 access curbs, design rules July 13, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Social media platforms aren’t the only services likely to be covered by future EU rules to better protect young users. Instead, the EU is looking at a broader approach than Australia’s first-of-its-kind social... (more story)

Lowered Meta abatement request from New Mexico seeks $953 million; judge eyes remedies July 10, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

As New Mexico Judge Bryan Biedscheid considers remedies against Meta Platforms following a state trial, Attorney General Raul Torrez significantly reduced the monetary amount the state is seeking for abatement... (more story)

Direction of EU social media curbs debate to be clarified with experts’ report July 10, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Political debate in the EU over social media bans is unlikely to be answered with a simple yes or no when an expert panel report drops on Monday. Wider discussions around child safety online — and a recent Ger... (more story)

Meta's French antitrust order aims to plug regulatory gap over media content use July 10, 2026 | Jean Comte

A French regulatory order for Meta Platforms to negotiate fresh terms with media outlets for using their content promises to help settle a dispute over remuneration and ease the sector's concerns about lost re... (more story)

Malaysia, Singapore recast sovereign AI around policy choices July 08, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez

Malaysia’s and Singapore's national strategies suggest that, for smaller economies, sovereign AI is becoming less about technological self-sufficiency than about combining targeted domestic capabilities with g... (more story)

India's WhatsApp intervention tests the boundaries of platform regulation July 08, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's proposed suspension of WhatsApp's usernames feature tests whether existing law permits government intervention in product design before deployment. This raises broader questions about executive authori... (more story)

US privacy enforcement remains conventional under increasingly politicized FTC July 06, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has taken a conventional approach to enforcement of privacy matters, even as his commission has taken a more disruptive approach to other issues.