"My from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
The social media company Mehta has agreed to settle with states that filed a lawsuit against it, alleging that the company deliberately designed platforms that are unsafe for kids.
The proposed settlement requires the company to pay $17 billion in penalties and make
a series of changes to Facebook and Instagram making them safer from minors. NPR's Ritu Chattergy reports." The changes met as required to make are aimed at making its platforms less addictive to kids, like setting a default daily time limit of two hours, a default nighttime block between 10pm and 6am.
Child Online Safety Advocates welcomed the development. Julie Schelfo founded the non-profit mothers against media addiction.
“"It's an important victory in our fight to hold big tech accountable.”
Meta agreed to this settlement for their shows what was made crystal clear in the other recent trials, which is that the company intentionally designed their algorithms to adapt our children."
Which she says has contributed to the youth mental health crisis in the country.
Meta denies the allegations, Ritu Chattergy and Pair News. One day after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro harshly criticized health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the deaths of two people in that state from the measles. These offices accusing the governor of possibly fabricating the deaths. The governor told reporters he had spoken with Kennedy, and that the spike in measles
comes at a time when President Trump is calling for the number of childhood vaccines to be cut back. "I made very clear that his actions and the rhetoric that's coming from this administration
“are having a negative impact on communities across America, particularly right here in Pennsylvania,”
that there's real life consequences to spreading misinformation." Nashville is mourning the death of Dali Parton from Member Station WPLU, Merrieta Backelau reports. Dali Parton's face is all over Nashville, from licensed plates to the many colorful murals on alleyways, karaoke bars fielded song requests from Jolene to my Tennessee
Mountain Home, and tribute to one of the most beloved singers in America. Outside Parton's Nashville property, eight-year-old Iris Spragons left flowers by a poster of Dali. "He's the best." Iris grew up getting books from Dali Parton's imagination library.
For early literacy initiative, has put 300 million free books into the hands of children.
Parton's family has asked that in lieu of flowers, mourners can make donations to her imagination library. For NPR News, I'm Mariana Backelau. "It's NPR."
“A fire at a Pakistan hospital, his killed 14 newborn babies after a blaze, quickly spread through”
the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit that's according to a prominent legislator. NPR's Omkar Kandahar reports, "The babies ages strange from a few hours old to a day old. According to federal minister Tharik Fazal, who released a statement on X. He said the fire broke out around Don in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, one
of the biggest and oldest hospitals in the capital Islamabad. Fazal said the hospital staff were able to rescue one baby. He said the baby's mother was safe." As Al-Zal said, the cause was likely a short circuit or an explosion in an air conditioner. Prime Minister Shayba Sharif, ordered an investigation.
Across the border in India, a fire and a hospital in the central Indian city of Amrathi killed three newborns earlier this week, Omkar Kandahar NPR News Mumbai. A trial day in June of 2028 has been set Wednesday by a U.S. military judge. For Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and three others who were accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the trial day does actually 18 months later than what prosecutors
were seeking and the additional time will be used to resolve the pre-trial disputes. The U.S. military and several administrations have struggled for years to try to bring the man who was charged with organizing the September 11 attacks. "I'm Dan Roman, NPR News in Washington. Support for NPR News."
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