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The landmark trial over the allegedly harmful impact meta-social media platforms have on teenagers
“and children is leading to a multi-billion-dollar settlement, a trial in California meta-denight”
allegations that it intentionally sought to "addict young people." But today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's company opted to put in stronger safeguards and on its website or just TikTok and YouTube to do the same. NPR's John Ruitt reports on what meta-has agreed to change as the tech behemoth faces a deluge of legal challenges from states.
According to the proposed settlement, the owner of Facebook and Instagram would pay up to $17 billion
to the states over the coming 10 years. The money would be used for things like after-school programs, public health advertising, and youth mental health programs. Meta also agreed to change features on its platforms to make them safer for minors. The changes include a two-hour time limit and a nighttime block for kids under 18. Minors also won't see how many likes they get, and won't be able to use certain beauty
filters, and meta-will take on an independent auditor. The settlement is subject to the approval of the judge in the case, but if it moves forward, it could change the landscape around a wave of lawsuits against social media companies. John Ruitt and PR News
“The federal judge is temporarily clearing the way for the U.S. Postal Service to continue”
carrying out President Trump's mail-in voting restrictions. Here's NPR's Hansi Lowe.
U.S. District Judge and Deera Tawani embossed and handed the Trump administration a temporary
win by canceling a nationwide ruling issue to block the U.S. Postal Service. This comes after the Supreme Court bonds a similar ruling by the same judge after the high court found the judge weighed in too early. The judge's latest move sets up another possible review of Trump's order at the Supreme Court.
Oden Wright's group's Democrats and two dozen mainly Democratic-led states are asking for new blocks on the Postal Service's recently released plan for delivering mail-in-bounds only of people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mailing agency. And we should note U.S. P.S. is financial support of NPR. The start of mail-in-boding for the midterm election is weeks away, and that leaves a little
time for Trump's order to be fully carried out on Zila Wong and PR News. Fans are remembering a claimed actor Tim Curry as gifted performer of stage and screen. In one social media post, actor Rob Schneider writes of the British-born artist quote his "one eyebrow could say more than most actors' entire bodies." Los Angeles police responded to a call the actor's home last night, no cause of death was
disclosed. Curry suffered a stroke in 2012 that left him partially paralyzed, but he still recounted his iconic performances over the years on stage and filmed from any to the bone-chilling penny-wise and it, to the global cult following phenomenon that is the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry was 80 years old.
From Washington, this is NPR News. A federal judge in Brownsville, Texas, is denying the state of a Minnesota's request to keep an ice agent in jail pending a ruling on his extradition of Minnesota to face charges related to the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant. With this decision, Agent Christian Castro could walk free tomorrow.
The case represents a high-stakes legal fight between the governments of these two states Minnesota officials last week, sued to force Governor Greg Abbott to sign paperwork allowing Agent Castro who is arrested May 29 to be returned to Minnesota. Chicago's professional women's basketball team is testing a new approach to counter abuse that its players are receiving.
This guy has partnered with two organizations in the national security space that focus on terrorism and violent extremism. His NPR is a debt-usef. WNBAs, the Chicago sky, has contracted with Moonshot to monitor online threats and abuse against sky players.
This guy has also partnered with Parallel. The polarization and extremism research and innovation lab at American University. Parallel developed a campaign called "Be the Sixth Player" to help the public push back against misogyny. Parallel's Cynthia Miller Idris says misogyny is linked to numerous forms of public violence.
"It's one of the biggest common denominators in gang violence, in stalking harassment of athletes and in school shootings, terrorism and targeted violence." The increasingly popular WNBAs has become a target of culture warriors seeking to inflame divisions over race, trans-rites, and women's rights, ODET-USF and PR News. "I'm Lakshmi Singh NPR News in Washington."
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