The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines ...

Google opposes Meta's age verification plan via app stores, highlighting potential privacy risks and ineffectiveness for protecting children. The company argues that this approach neglects various ...

The company also argued the legislation was a way for Meta to shirk its responsibility to kids’ safety and would not make any meaningful changes to teens’ experiences on social media.

A federal judge in 2024 temporarily blocked Utah's first-in-the-nation law requiring social media companies to check the ages of all users and place restrictions on accounts belonging to minors.

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed for another clash with the European Union after a €200 million ($232 million) fine failed to bring Facebook and Instagram into compliance with a tough new digital law.

Apple and Google, however, have pushed back on legislation that would require them to verify the ages of all users, saying that app stores and app developers should share responsibility for age ...

The company uses age-verification methods to check the ages of its users, but O’Connor said there’s an increased need for public policy to strengthen the verification methods.

A federal judge in 2024 temporarily blocked Utah's first-in-the-nation law requiring social media companies to check the ages of all users and place restrictions on accounts belonging to minors.

But Meta, Snap, and X have praised the law, which Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed on Wednesday. The App Store Accountability Act, also known as S.B. 142, is set to take effect on May 7 — but is ...

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to ...