The Big Tech Gut Check is a super quick, weekly update on all things social media and Big Tech.
Social Media & Big Tech highlights for this week:
- Parents Who Lost Children to Online Harms Protest Outside Meta NYC
- Meta Tries to Help Parents Enroll More Teens into Teen Accounts
- Meta's Digital Companions Will Talk Sex with Users -- Even Children
- Snapchat Announces Family Safety Hub
- Snapchat Distracts with Support of National Fentanyl Awareness Day
- [RESEARCH] New Study Shows Teens Admit Social Media is Bad for Them
- Trump Signs Executive Order Advancing AI in Education
- Take it Down Act Passes House - On President's Desk for Signature
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