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Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson, right, hugs a colleague outside of court after tech giant Meta agreed to pay $17 billion as part of a settlement to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction in Oakland, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Meta reaches $17 billion settlement 鈥� with $615 million for Colorado 鈥� in trial over teen social media addiction

August 26, 2026 at 5:58 p.m.

The agreement is worth close to $615 million over nine years in Colorado alone, money that will "go directly to protecting and restoring the mental health and safety of Colorado...

FILE – The app for Bluesky is shown on a mobile phone, left, and on a laptop screen on June 2, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains 鈥� and bots

December 22, 2024 at 3:32 p.m.

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk鈥檚 X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to...

FILE – A child holds an iPhone at an Apple store on Sept. 25, 2015 in Chicago. Parents — and even some teens themselves — are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of social media use on young people. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Keeping children safe on social media: What parents should know to protect their kids

June 15, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Using social media platforms is still the default for most American teenagers, with the Pew Research Center reporting that 58% of teens are daily users of TikTok, including 17% who...

File – A pile of characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are seen in San Francisco, Monday, July 24, 2023. One year ago, Elon Musk began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X. (AP Photo/Godofredo A.Vásquez, File)

Twitter takeover: 1 year later, X struggles with misinformation, advertising and usage decline

November 4, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

One year ago, billionaire and new owner Elon Musk walked into Twitter鈥檚 San Francisco headquarters with a white bathroom sink and a grin, fired its CEO and other top executives...

Martin Shane uses a Sony Access controller, left, to play a video game at Sony Interactive Entertainment headquarters Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, in San Mateo, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. V谩squez)

Sony鈥檚 Access controller for the PlayStation aims to make gaming easier for people with disabilities

October 21, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

Playing video games has long been a challenge for many people with disabilities, since the traditional controllers for the PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo can be difficult or even impossible to...

FILE – An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook says it is not dead. It’s not even just for “old people,” as young people have been saying for years. The social media platform born before the iPhone is approaching two decades in existence. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Facebook has 3 billion users. Many of them are old.

May 13, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

Facebook says it is not dead. Facebook also wants you to know that it is not just for 鈥渙ld people,鈥� as young people have been saying for years.

The Mastodon site is shown on a smart phone in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. Sites like Mastodon and even Tumblr are emerging as new (or renewed) alternatives to Twitter. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay)

Twitter drama too much? Mastodon, others emerge as options

November 19, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO took helm, cutting the company’s workforce in half, overhauling the platform’s verification system, sparring with some users and...

Strike four: Facebook misses election misinformation in Brazil ads

August 14, 2022 at 10:32 p.m.

Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that...

FILE – Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to an abortion that’s been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon, Disney, Apple and JP Morgan pledged to cover travel costs for employees who live in states where the procedure is now illegal so they can terminate pregnancies. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Companies could face hurdles covering abortion travel costs

July 5, 2022 at 5:24 a.m.

After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to an abortion that's been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon, Disney, Apple and JP Morgan pledged to...

Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in ads

June 9, 2022 at 12:14 p.m.

The test couldn't have been much easier — and Facebook still failed.

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