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 ...

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.

And under Meta's proposed rules, the nuts-and-bolts of age verification wouldn't be the responsibility of social media companies. Punting verification to Apple's App Store and the Google Play ...

Meta, Snap, and X (formerly Twitter ... Meta and Google clash over new child safety law ... The company argues that the law forces app stores to share kids’ age data with millions of developers, ...

Antigone Davis explains Meta’s push for laws making app store providers responsible for age verification, and why its Quest VR store is a model. Antigone Davis explains Meta’s push for laws ...

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.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- A representative for the company that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp supports South Dakota requiring app stores to verify users' ages.

Facebook parent company Meta is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would make age restrictions on its rivals' app stores much tighter to limit inappropriate content for teenagers. The ...

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 ...