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Meta’s $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety

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Meta’s $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety

The new safety barriers include a two-hour time limit across both platforms, which will be a default setting for known teen users.

Arturo Bejar, the ex-Instagram engineer turned whistleblower, says the proof of the pudding will be in whether the new teen safety features are effective.

It was based on a US law called the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which is nearly 30 years old and predates all of today's biggest social platforms.

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