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The social media company said new Instagram users under 18 will be placed into a teen account.

The rumor mill about immigrants attacking household pets got its start in thinly sourced anecdotes shared at government meetings and on social media.

Rep. Tim Walberg slammed Meta for its response to a bipartisan group of lawmakers regarding illicit drug ads on its platform.

Fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of death for minors in the last five years or so — and social media, where tainted, fake prescription drugs can be obtained with just a few clicks, is part of the problem.

NBC6’s Julia Bagg reports on what parents need to know about keeping students safe plus the penalites they can face fo rmaking these threats.

An apparent threat posted to an Instagram account late Thursday night worried parents and students of a Southwest Miami-Dade middle school. NBC6’s Julia Bagg reports.

One person was arrested after a threat posted to an Instagram account late Thursday night worried parents and students of a southwest Miami-Dade middle school, an officer told NBC6 at the scene Friday morning. A local high school also received some kind of threat. The first threat appeared to target Lamar Louise Curry Middle School with a post that showed…

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is promising stepped-up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app.

New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat. He says that the site’s design and policies foster the sharing of child sexual abuse material and facilitate child sexual exploitation.

A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block social media platform X nationwide.

Young girls are buying up anti-aging products they see promoted on social media, with harmful effects for their skin — and their mental health.

The viral phrase “very demure, very mindful” has been filed for trademark by a Washington State man named Jefferson Bates.

Paris marked the first edition of the Team USA Creators program, where creators, many of them Olympians, came to Paris to help tell the story of the Olympics on social media.

The 65-year-old Olympian and swimming commentator pulled back the curtain on his relatable social media presence.

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers.

Florida has proposed details about how it will carry out a new law aimed at keeping children off social-media platforms and blocking minors from accessing online pornography. NBC6’s Sophia Hernandez reports

Facing potential First Amendment challenges, Florida has proposed details about how it will carry out a new law aimed at keeping children off social-media platforms and blocking minors from accessing online pornography.

The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today’s oldest teenagers were born.

The United States signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies on Thursday aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs.

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