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Arkansas House passes bill requiring social media platforms to verify users’ ages and seek parental consent for minors

By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN The Arkansas House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would require social media companies to verify their users’ ages and confirm that minors have permission from a parent or guardian before opening an account. The bill, dubbed the Social Media Safety Act, was passed by an

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After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data

Academic researchers blast Twitter’s data paywall as ‘outrageously expensive’

By Brian Fung, CNN After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data, academic researchers warned that the vaguely worded plan could threaten important studies about how misinformation, harassment and other malicious activity spreads online. Now, as Twitter has released more pricing information, many of those same academics

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