Lawsuits involving Meta Platforms

Photo: Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Meta no longer allows teenagers to receive direct messages from anyone they’re not following on Instagram, or friends with on Facebook, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The policy update aims to create a safer environment for minors on the platform, one week after Meta’s internal documents revealed that roughly 100,000 children are sexually harassed on Facebook and Instagram every single day.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsNew Mexico’s attorney general sued…

 Canadian officials say the federal government will suspend all of its advertising on Facebook and Instagram following Meta’s drastic decision to block access to news links in the region as retaliation to the country’s passage of the Online News Act. Major Canadian corporations like Quebecor and Cogeco Communication have similarly pledged to cease advertising on Meta platforms to rebuke the company. It increasingly looks like Meta’s commitment not to pay news publishers for accessing their material could wind up costing…

Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP (Getty Images)Several news publishers are going to be out millions of dollars as Meta is now saying, in a very subdued way, there’s no place for dedicated news systems on its ever-more algorithmically based social platforms.Axios reported based on anonymous sources from inside Facebook that the company is officially backing out from its contracts with major news publishers. The news was later all but explicitly confirmed by a spokesperson from Meta, Facebook’s parent company.“A lot has changed…