- Senate Passes Bill Prohibiting Ads Targeting Minors Under 17
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 5, 2026
The Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act would expand the curre ...
- Roblox Tackles Profanity With AI, Child Safety Suits Multiply
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, March 5, 2026
Roblox has announced its effort to safeguard its chat feature using ...
- House Committee Advances Kids Safety Package
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 5, 2026
A House committee approved a bill that would require social platforms ...
- Virginia AG Seeks To Restore Social Media Time Limits
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has appealed an order blocking enforcement ...
- Judge Blocks Virginia Time Limits For Social Media
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 2, 2026
"Virginia does not have the legal authority to block minors' access ...
- Discord Clarifies, Postpones Age-Verification Rollout
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Discord will postpone the rollout of its mandatory global age-verification initiative, accordi ...
- Teens, Chatbots And The New Media Plan: AI Is Already In The Backpack
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Wednesday, February 25, 2026
AI literacy is becoming cultural literacy, making brand presence inside AI ecosyste ...
- Discord Ditches Age-Verification Partner Following User Backlash
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, February 23, 2026
Discord has distanced itself from leading third-party age verification partner Persona followi ...
- California AG Urges Judge To Uphold Ban On Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 23, 2026
California's restrictions on online recommendations do not violate the First Amendment, sta ...
- Virginia Limits Minors To One Hour Daily On Social Media
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Virginia will require that social-media platforms limit usage by minors to o ...
- Meta Renews Battle With FTC Over Teen Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 16, 2026
Meta argues in new court papers that the FTC lacks the authori ...
- Texas Claims Snapchat Deceives Parents
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims in a new lawsuit that Sn ...
- School District Can Proceed To Trial Against Social Platforms
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
A Kentucky school district can attempt to convince a jury that YouTub ...
- Tech Group Seeks To Block Utah Restrictions On App Downloads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
The Utah App Store Accountability Act amounts to "a sweeping censorship regime ...
- Discord To Roll Out Mandatory Age-Verification For All Users
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, February 9, 2026
New and existing Discord users will receive an automatically delivered "teen-appropriate experien ...
- Tech Industry Sues Over Utah Law Restricting App Downloads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 5, 2026
The Texas App Store Accountability Act "imposes a broad censorship regime ...
- Meta Petitions SCOTUS To Intervene In Vermont 'Addiction' Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 3, 2026
"The complaint alleges that Meta violated Vermont law by 'designing' Instagram ...
- Snapchat Locks Under-16 Accounts In Australia
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, February 2, 2026
In compliance with Australia's groundbreaking under-16 social-media ban, Snapchat announced it h ...
- Civil Rights Groups Weigh In Against Arkansas Social Media Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Arkansas Social Media Safety Act "will block minors and adults fr ...
- Meta Pauses Teen Use Of AI Companions
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 23, 2026
Meta has announced it is temporarily pausing teens' access to the company ...
- Snapchat Settles Teen's Addiction Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Snapchat has settled a lawsuit brought by a teen who alleged th ...
- Louisiana Seeks To Reinstate Parental Consent For Social Media
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 16, 2026
A district court judge ruled last month that the law violates t ...
- X Limits Grok AI Image Generation To Paying Subs
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 9, 2026
While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images f ...
- NetChoice Pushes To Block Virginia Time Limits For Social Media
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 9, 2026
The new law "restricts wide swaths of First Amendment activity - includi ...
- Roblox Enforces Global Age Checks For Chat Access
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 8, 2026
After testing proprietary facial-recognition technology in December, Roblox has announced it ...
- Virginia Law Limiting Social Media Time For The Young Takes Effect
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 2, 2026
A Virginia law that restricts the amount of time minors can spe ...
- 29 Attorneys General Back Virginia Law Limiting Social Media
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 24, 2025
A Florida-led state coalition opposes the tech industry's bid to block ...
- Judge Blocks Texas Law Restricting App Downloads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Texas can't enforce the App Store Accountability Act, which would have requir ...
- YouTube Introduces AI Avatars Of Select Creators
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, December 17, 2025
A small group of YouTube creators have agreed to allow Google La ...
- Google, TikTok Prevail In Battle Over Potentially Harmful Videos
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 16, 2025
A federal judge has thrown out claims that Google and TikTok fail ...