The trial on 18 August stems from a lawsuit filed in 2023 by 29 US states, including California and New York, in which they claim Meta violated federal and state privacy laws for children and deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive to young people. The BBC’s North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali explains how
“Like” counts, for instance, have been part of Meta since its early years, when it was still called Facebook and that was its only platform. Today, likes are omnipresent on social media platforms. It is the main way in which people engage with text, photos and videos they see online. Yet, likes are increasingly viewed
The accounts have managed to manipulate the algorithms on major social media sites by sharing emotive and hopeful content to gain more traction. Insiders at the biggest social media companies have previously told me how posts triggering a strong reaction are more likely to go viral. When I tried to contact some of these profiles
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared
This message is cause for concern, according to ADHD specialists who spoke to WIRED. “Stimulant medications have been around for almost 100 years and have been approved for use in children since the 1960s,” says Kristen Leinung, a mental health nurse practitioner and director of psychiatric services at the Northwest ADHD Treatment Center in Portland,
Marina Demeshko/iStockphoto/Getty Images seven years ago, He New Yorker Copywriter Jia Tolentino is widely credited with coining the term “Instagram face” to describe a beauty standard she noticed emerging on social media among white female influencers. “The face looked like the beauty filters that Snapchat and Instagram provided to lift the cheeks, plump the lips,