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Meta has begun testing an Instagram Plus subscription in at least three countries, with premium features focused largely on Stories and audience management.

Austria says it will introduce legislation by the end of June to restrict social media access for children under 14, adding to a widening international push for tougher rules on minors and platforms.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK will ‘have to act’ on social media features designed to keep children engaged, with streaks and endless scrolling now under sharper policy scrutiny.

Bluesky’s new Attie app lets people describe the feed they want in plain language, turning the company’s open social protocol into a more personalized and potentially more programmable platform.

Bluesky’s new Exploration team has introduced Attie, an invite-only AI assistant designed to generate custom social feeds without requiring users to write code.

Austria says it will introduce a bill by the end of June to bar children under 14 from social media, pairing the proposal with media-literacy education and privacy protections around age verification.

A jury’s finding that Meta and YouTube negligently designed their platforms and harmed a young user could intensify pressure on tech companies to defend core engagement features as product-liability risks.

A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and YouTube negligent in platform design in the first social media addiction case to reach a verdict, ordering $3 million in damages in a decision that could shape 2,000 pending lawsuits.

Social news aggregator Digg has closed again just eight weeks after its highly anticipated relaunch, illustrating the limits of nostalgia as a product strategy in a crowded platform landscape.

Bluesky founder Jay Graber is leaving the CEO role, saying the growing platform needs a seasoned operator to scale.

X announced it will suspend creator revenue sharing for accounts posting unlabeled AI-generated war footage, as fake combat videos flood the platform during the Iran conflict.

X is reinventing its Creator Subscriptions program with changes to pricing, revenue splits, and subscriber benefits that reshape the platform's creator economy.

Experts describe a web of AI-manipulated videos and coordinated disinformation campaigns flooding the internet to sway public opinion on the US-Iran conflict.

Opening arguments begin in a historic trial accusing Meta and YouTube of deliberately designing addictive platforms that harm children's mental health.