{"id":752095,"date":"2026-08-28T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:52:09","slug":"more-social-media-safety-should-come-with-meta-changes-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752095\/","title":{"rendered":"More social media safety should come with Meta changes, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, California Attorney General Rob Bonta &#8211; who represented one of the leading states in the Meta lawsuit &#8211; said he was &#8220;looking to ensure&#8221; TikTok adopted similar measures to Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In agreeing on Wednesday to make various changes to end the states&#8217; lawsuit, Meta said they would only be truly effective &#8220;if all our peers join us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bonta told US News outlet CNBC he was &#8220;interested&#8221; in speaking to TikTok and YouTube, and that TikTok was &#8220;interested in speaking with us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neither company has responded to requests for comment since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bonta added that he had communicated with Snap, another popular social media platform among younger users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he warned he was &#8220;willing to take additional steps&#8221; if they did not voluntarily make changes along the lines that Meta will be making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, Meta agreed to pay up to $18bn (\u00a313.3bn) to 48 US states, plus the District of Columbia and three US territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The penalties will paid over 10 years, but $5.3bn of it is contingent on YouTube and TikTok also implementing the following measures:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the settlement, Meta did not admit to any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, California Attorney General Rob Bonta &#8211; who represented one of the leading states in the Meta lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}