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Meta’s New Teen Rules Explained | Birmingham News
Meta’s facing major shifts as it settles for $117 million to Alabama, but the real shake-up? New rules forcing teens to limit Instagram and Facebook use to just two hours daily—with mandatory breaks, nighttime blocks, and silenced notifications during school hours. Regulators say these platforms were engineered to be addictive, trapping kids in cycles of endless scrolling. Beyond time limits, the deal demands better age checks, stronger parental tools, and tighter safeguards against harmful content like eating disorder imagery, suicide links, and cosmetic filters. If other giants like TikTok…
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