Tag: Teen
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Australia’s Teen Social Media Restrictions Start December 10: What’s Permitted and What Isn’t?
Popular social media platforms that are affected by the law include: Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, X, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, and Twitch. Regulators have said that they will be monitoring the services and may add more to the list. Social media platforms are excluded from the ban, as they were deemed as primarily for messaging…
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Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban: 5 Essential Insights
A new Australian law that bars children under 16 from having social media accounts on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, takes effect on December 10. In the weeks leading up to the deadline, tech giants such as Meta began locking out hundreds of thousands of under-16 users from their accounts on its platforms.…
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Settlement Reached in Fatal Police Shooting of Teen
The city of San Diego has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a San Diego police officer while the teen was running away from gunshots fired by another person, in what the family’s attorneys say is believed to be the largest settlement stemming from…
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Search Efforts Intensify for Missing Teen in Woody Creek
Photos provided in the flyer for the missing person.Courtesy photo The search continues for 19-year-old who went missing Dec. 2 in the Woody Creek Plaza area. According to Pitkin County Sheriff Michael Buglione, the teen is presumably still in the same vicinity. “We have people searching on foot and a drone in the air looking, as well,”…
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Teen Faces Federal Charges for Subway Arson Incident at Penn Station
MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) — A teen accused of setting a 56-year-old man on fire while he rode the No. 3 train on Dec. 1 is facing a federal arson charge. The NYPD arrested Hiram Carrero, 18, on Thursday. He appeared before a federal judge in Lower Manhattan on Friday, where a federal prosecutor said…