The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, declined to offer an attributed on-the-record comment about the new age checks to The Verge. In unattributed statements to other outlets, it said it was “now ...

Per Ofcom's rules, there are various ways that age checks can be done, including checking users' government issued IDs, ...

Child advocates say holding tech companies responsible for verifying the ages of their users is key to creating a safer ...

Meta Platforms will end political, election and social issue advertising on its platform in the EU in early October, blaming ...

LONDON — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Friday that it will stop all political advertising in the European Union by ...

Meta last year left Chamber of Progress, a liberal-leaning tech group that counts Apple and Google as members. Since then, ...