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Children’s Privacy: YouTube algorithms found steering gamers to guns

A study by non-profit Tech Transparency Project evaluated videos recommended by YouTube algorithms and found the platform recommended hundreds of videos about guns and gun violence to boys interested in video games. These included videos that showed how to make and enhance weapons or depicted school shootings – all of which are in violation of YouTube’s stated policies about depiction of firearms and violence, and to protect children’s safety.

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Children’s Privacy: Chinese police alert parents to check messaging apps that may try to involve their kids in crime

May 23, 2023

Local police across China alerted parents that encrypted communications apps, including Telegram, which can encrypt or immediately erase content, have been used by criminals to defraud children – and sometimes even involve them as accomplices in crimes. Parents were advised to check kids’ cell phones for encrypted apps and to remove them if found.

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Meta Faces Class Action for Overcharging Facebook Advertisers

April 17, 2025

Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another.  Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.

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