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The impending ban is facing a constitutional challenge from two 15-year-olds, who are backed by the advocacy group, the Digital Freedom Project.
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The move comes after years of rising concern about how online environments affect young people’s mental health, attention, and behavior.
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Ofcom notes that women and girls routinely encounter disproportional abuse online, in forms such as sexual violence, coercive control, and even targeted pile-ons.
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Named platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and the streaming services Kick and Twitch.
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Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm
We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we’re living under, but by the particular epoch of human events that our lives happen to coincide with.
The Industrial Revolution, for example, presented opportunities for certain kinds of business success – it made some people very rich while others were exploited. If you’d known that was the name of your era, it would have given you a clue about what kinds of events to prepare for. So I’m suggesting a name for the era we’re living through: the Information Crisis.
Meta will retire Facebook’s Like and Comment plugins on Feb. 10, 2026, citing a platform refresh as usage declines — ending a hallmark of the early social web.
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Perplexity will pay Snap $400M to power AI search inside Snapchat, bringing conversational search to millions of users and reshaping how people discover content.
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The allegations are part of the European Union’s broader campaign to enforce the Digital Services Act.
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Instagram now defaults teen accounts to PG-13 settings, limiting mature posts and AI content for a safer, regulated social experience.
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From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future
What happens when an internationally bestselling historian, a Nobel peace prize-winning journalist and a former politician get together to discuss the state of the world, and where we’re heading? Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medieval and military historian best known for his panoramic surveys of human history, including Sapiens, Homo Deus and, most recently, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Maria Ressa, joint winner of the Nobel peace prize, is a Filipino and American journalist who co-founded the news website Rappler. And Rory Stewart is a British academic and former Conservative MP, writer and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast. Their conversation ranged over the rise of AI, the crisis in democracy and the prospect of a Trump-Putin wedding, but began by considering a question central to all of their work: how to live a good life in an increasingly fragmented and fragile world?
YNH People have been arguing about this for thousands of years. The main contribution of modern liberalism and democracy was to try to agree to disagree; that different people can have very different concepts of what a good life is, and they can still live together in the same society, agreeing on some very basic rules of conduct. And the challenge was always that people who think they have the absolute answer to what is a good life try to impose it on others, partly because, unfortunately for many ideologies, an inherent part of the good life is attempting to make everybody live it. And even more unfortunately, in many cases, it seems that it is easier to impose it on others than to do it ourselves. If we take the original crusade in medieval Christian Europe, you have all these people who can’t live a Christian life of modesty and compassion and love your neighbour, but they are able to travel thousands of kilometres to kill people and try to force them to live according to these principles. And what we are witnessing in the world right now is more of the same.