Australia's ban on social media for teens under 16 is, among other things, an enormous gift to YouTube

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Australia bans young teens from social media

It's a blow for free expression — and an enormous gift to YouTube

Under huge antitrust pressure, Google keeps meddling with the web anyway. I wrote about its awful new 'page annotations'

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Google keeps meddling with the web

With antitrust prosecutions in full swing, the company keeps giving regulators fresh reasons for concern

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team

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Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge

After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team