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Friday, Dec 5

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New Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Major Websites, Including Trump’s Truth Social

A fresh outage at American internet services giant Cloudflare briefly knocked several major websites offline on Friday, affecting platforms such as US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social and popular graphic design site Canva. Users…

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EU hands €120m fine to Elon Musk's X for breaking social media rules

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Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has been fined €120m (£105m) by the EU after it found rule breaches had left users vulnerable to scams and manipulation.

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EU hits Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's social media law

triblive.com

LONDON — European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X $140 million for breaches of the bloc’s digital regulations that they said could leave users exposed to scams and manipulation.

EU hits Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law

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LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million)…

EU regulators hit Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's social media law

European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations

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Why We Can’t Trace Bandits On TikTok, Other Social Media Platforms – Presidency

www.naijanews.com

The Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has disclosed the reason security agents are finding it challenging to track armed bandits who flaunt ransom money on social media platforms like TikTok and…

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Sudha Murty urges Government to set norms on portrayal of children on social media platforms

www.thehindu.com

Many parents expose their innocent children on social media platforms, she said

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Ex-PM’s aide Shahzad Akhbar declared proclaimed offender in case pertaining to controversial social media posts

www.dawn.com

Former special assistant to the prime minister Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who currently resides in the United Kingdom (UK), was declared a proclaimed offender in a case pertaining to his alleged controversial statements on social media platform…

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Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

www.techmeme.com

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks — New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while…

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Australia Says Its Teen Social Media Is The 'First Domino' In Global Effort To Reign In Tech Giants As Meta Blocks Instagram, Facebook Accounts

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Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are beginning to block or log out Australian users under 16 ahead of the country's Dec. 10 social media ban, which aims to protect minors while exempting certain platforms and is being watched globally…

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Teens hoping to get around Australia’s social media ban are rushing to smaller apps. Where are they going?

www.theguardian.com

As Meta begins deleting accounts and the deadline looms, children have already begun to flock to platforms not included in the banned list, like Coverstar, Lemon8, Yope and Rednote

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Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million

abc7.com

Social media platforms must report monthly how many children's accounts they close once Australia begins enforcing its 16-year age limit next week.

Thursday, Dec 4

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Instagram down LIVE: Social media platform suffers major worldwide blackout

www.mirror.co.uk

Instagram has gone down impacting millions of users across the globe, as people report being unable to log in to the social media app

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Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)

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Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024 — Taiwan's interior ministry said on Thursday it would suspend access to Instagram…

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Is This the End of Kids on Social Media?

www.theatlantic.com

Australia is about to ban young teens from most platforms. The rest of the world is watching.

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Meta Blocks Under-16s from Social Media in Australia

www.tvcnews.tv

Tech giant Meta announced on Thursday that it will begin removing users under 16 in Australia from Instagram, Threads, and Facebook, in preparation for the country’s world-first youth social media law. Australia’s legislation, set to take…

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Meta starts removing under-16s from social media in Australia

guardian.ng

Tech giant Meta said Thursday it is starting to remove under-16s in Australia from Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first youth social media ban. Australia is requiring major online platforms, also including…

YouTube Push Back As Meta Starts Removing Under-16s From Social Media

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YouTube and Tech giant Meta clashed on Thursday following Meta’s announcement that it has begun removing users under the age of 16 from social media platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook, in Australia. This is as the…

Meta starts blocking teens in Australia under social media ban

www.aljazeera.com

Australia's world-first ban requires 10 major online platforms to block users aged 16.

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Mumbai Diary | BJP-RSS silent social engineering at work

CM Devendra Fadnavis’s medical help cell, in collaboration with government and social and community organisations, has planned three mega events. These initiatives aim at bringing marginalised and socially overlooked communities like…