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Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would hide more content from teens on Instagram and Facebook, after regulators around the globe pressed the social media giant to protect children from harmful content on its apps. All teens will now be placed into the most restrictive content control settings on the apps and additional search terms will be limited on Instagram, Meta said in a blogpost. The move will make it more difficult for teens to come across sensitive content such as suicide, self-harm and eating disorders when they use features like Search and Explore on Instagram, according to Meta. The company said the measures, expected to roll out over the coming weeks, would help deliver a more "age-appropriate" experience. Meta is under pressure both in the United States and Europe over allegations that its apps are addictive and have helped fuel a youth mental health crisis. Attorneys general of 33 US states including California and New York sued the company in October, ...

Social media company X on Monday sued media watchdog group Media Matters, alleging the organization defamed the platform after it published a report that said ads for major brands had appeared next to posts touting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. X, formerly Twitter, has faced growing outrage since Media Matters published the report on Thursday, which led IBM, Comcast and several other advertisers to pull ads from the platform in response. In the lawsuit filed in a US District Court in Texas, X claimed Media Matters "manipulated" the social media platform by using accounts that exclusively followed accounts for major brands or users known to produce fringe content , and "resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing" the feed until it found ads next to extremist posts. Media Matters' report misrepresented the typical experience on X "with the intention of harming X and its Business ," the company said in the lawsuit. Media Matters...