Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog: This is clever, especially if most of your audience uses Bluesky.

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims: The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation.

Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign: Turns out America isn’t the only country that can meme-war (to the detriment of the rest of us I’m certain).

How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’

Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.

Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’

King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.

When a Tweet Becomes a Crime: What the Lucy Connolly Case Says

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds

Moderation.txt: Some rules for moderating communities.

The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over: Who needs actual friends when you’ve got “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on”.