Lily Jamali
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What we're seeing is the expansion of recent changes that were made by Meta to Instagram for teen accounts, now going to Facebook and Messenger. So it won't just be Instagram, where users will see the types of changes that were introduced last year. So what are those changes?
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Going forward, we'll see built-in restrictions on who can get in touch with teens, what they see on the platform, as well as limits being placed on how much time they can spend on these platforms. There are also expected to be changes to Instagram itself coming in the next few months. So teens under 16 will be blocked from going live unless their parents allow it.
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Parents will also need to turn off a feature for that to happen. So that's another thing that's coming through. And teens under the age of 16 will also be required to have parental permission to turn off a feature that automatically blurs images that contain images. Potential nudity in their DMs or direct messages.
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So taken together, what the company is really doing here is making teen accounts more restricted by default. I suppose the big question is, is this enough? I think we ought to frame this for what it is, which is a preemptive approach by Meta to basically put in guardrails on its own before governments do it for them. The announcement about those Instagram teen accounts was
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was made notably right around the time when kids online safety legislation was looking like it was making traction last summer here in the United States.
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That actually didn't end up going anywhere, but Meta had made this announcement and they rolled it out with these Instagram teen accounts with slick advertisements that were plastered on billboards and they took out full page ads in major newspapers across the U.S., The Molly Rose Foundation, which was set up after the death of a young girl back in 2017, has taken an advocacy role in this space.
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They've been saying that there's been relative silence from CEO Mark Zuckerberg on what the changes have been so far. How have the changes that the company has instituted done? Have they actually worked? And what kind of sensitive content is actually being tackled here? Parents still don't know.
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If, you know, for example, settings stop their kids from being algorithmically recommended certain kinds of content, content deemed inappropriate or harmful by a lot of parents. Others say this is a step in the right direction. This is an area that a lot of these social media companies have been remiss to tackle on their own.
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And I think there have been some expressions of appreciation that Meta has done something instead of just sitting on its hands.
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This company was really premised on the idea that you could spit into a test tube and learn a whole lot about your ancestry as well as potential health risks. And it was a product that really resonated with customers, certainly. They had a whole bunch of celebrity endorsements early on. And it also resonated with investors who took the value of this company up to $6 billion at one point.
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It has now fallen by about 98%, 99%. It's lost that much value. They're going into Chapter 11 in the hopes that they will be able to sell the company through a court-supervised process. But the company's saying that, you know, for now, not much changes. It stays in operations.
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But I can tell you that on Friday, just a couple days ago, going into this announcement of this Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection situation that they're now in, the attorney general of California actually issued a consumer alert here in our state saying that people can delete their data to protect it because there's so much uncertainty about the company's financial situation now.
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This is an outgrowth of a law that was passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis, which called for the company to either divest, meaning sell itself to a U.S. buyer, or face this ban. And the company dug in this entire time saying it's not going to sell. And so it is now on track to be banned. So we are awaiting arguments to be made in the Supreme Court from both sides.
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And you also have, in addition to TikTok and the U.S. Department of Justice, content creators are joining with TikTok. Of course, all sides have filed briefs. And you also have what are known as amicus briefs, where people Folks like Donald Trump that aren't part of the case but want to have their voices heard can file their perspectives. He has said that he likes TikTok.
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He thinks that it may have helped him win re-election because he was able to reach younger voters there, especially those under 30 are believed to use TikTok as their primary news source. And so he has filed this brief saying that he wants the Supreme Court to basically pause, press the pause button here, allow him to come into office the day after this ban is supposed to take effect.
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He comes in on the 20th and to let him try to find a political resolution. He's convinced that he can do that. He wants to, in his words, save TikTok.
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Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
I'm standing in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, where there remains an enhanced law enforcement presence one day after a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks and camping gas exploded at the entrance. That explosion killed the person driving the vehicle and also inflicted minor injuries on seven other people.
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Authorities believe that the driver was 37-year-old Matthew Liversberger of Colorado Springs, Colorado, but they are still awaiting confirmation. The driver's body, they say, was burned beyond recognition, but they did confirm that the driver of the vehicle suffered a gunshot wound to the head. Now, there are a number of parallels between what happened here and what took place on the same day
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in New Orleans. Both incidents, of course, taking place on New Year's Day, both involving members of the military who were born in the United States. We also know from law enforcement that both men used the same service, a company called Turo, to rent the vehicles that were involved in these attacks.
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While law enforcement officials say that the attack in New Orleans was an act of terrorism, they're not saying that that was necessarily the case here. Here in Las Vegas, the attack is being investigated as an entirely separate incident. The motive remains unclear. But one official on Thursday did say that it's not lost on authorities that this attack took place in front of a Trump property.
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and involved a Tesla vehicle. The FBI is asking for leads, and so far they say they've gotten hundreds of tips.