Meta's $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety
Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
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"in the past he had told bosses that harmful stuff was happening to children on the platform, and no action was taken."
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Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
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