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

BBC News Business · 27 August 2026 at 00:04

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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