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France is set to bar under-15s from social media and extend mobile phone bans to high schools from 2026, as President Emmanuel Macron pushes tougher rules to curb online harms to minors.

The social media site was also accused of allowing content praising the Islamic State terror group to remain online. 

Reuters reported that internal documents from late 2024 stated that Meta expected to earn about 10% of its revenue that year – about $16 billion – from illicit advertising.

Hamas worked for years to compile models based on information IDF soldiers personal social media and practiced infiltrating bases using VR technology.

To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison,” internal documents said.

The agency sought to force Meta to restructure or sell Instagram and WhatsApp in order to restore competition among social media networks.

Fuentes’s online rehabilitation began when Musk reinstated his account on X/Twitter in May.

Rivka Bohbot, wife of former Gaza hostage Elkana Bohbot, shared a heartwarming story about how he is adjusting to life outside the Gaza tunnels.

In 2025, the Index also measured the public's use of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language models (AI chatbots), which have become widely accessible.

BBC Radio 4 producer Jayne Egerton shared a post referring to Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered political activist Charlie Kirk, as his “Zionist handler.”