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Several major tech firms promised a British regulator they will make significant changes to their platforms to better protect children. The regulator, Ofcom, had required Roblox, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to answer questions about their efforts to remove harmful algorithms, check kids’ ages and protect them from sexual predators by the end of April. All of the companies, except for YouTube and TikTok, said they would commit to certain changes. Snap told Ofcom that it will adopt every one of the agency’s recommended grooming protection steps outlined in the Illegal Harms Codes. For example, the platform will restrict how adults can contact children on Snapchat, and the platform will stop pushing children to grow their friendship groups by connecting with people they don’t know. The new protections apply only to children accessing Snapchat in the UK. Roblox told Ofcom it will give parents the ability to turn off direct chats for children under age 16, and Meta has said it will build a new setting that will hide teens’ lists of connections on Instagram by default.  Meta also will begin using AI to find “likely sexualized conversations between adults and teens in Instagram direct messages.” The tech giant

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Creator marketing usually sells influence. Snapchat is trying to sell closeness. In a new business post, Snap argues that creator ads work differently on Snapchat because the platform is built around real relationships, not passive broadcasting. The company points to signals like 3.5 billion unique pairs of friends Snapping every day, 90 percent of messages being sent to a user’s top five friends, and creator-led Sponsored Snaps delivering higher click and open rates than non-creator versions. That is a very specific positioning. Snapchat is not just saying creators perform. It is saying the environment changes what performance means. From reach to relationship context Most creator marketing has been built around the logic of reach: find the person with the right audience, borrow their trust, distribute the message. That still matters. But Snapchat’s argument is that the context around the creator matters as much as the creator themselves. On TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, creator content often appears inside feeds optimized for discovery and entertainment. On Snapchat, Snap wants brands to see creator content as something closer to social proximity. The pitch is that users are not just watching. They are receiving content inside a space already associated with friends, daily life

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It's been a tough ride for long-term Snap (SNAP +3.17%) investors. Once touted as a close rival to Meta Platforms' Instagram, the relatively small social media company remains unprofitable and is down by more than 30% year to date. Investors who are betting on a turnaround may want to cut their losses and review other investment opportunities. Growth is slow and profits are nonexistent Snap's revenue trajectory does not reflect what investors have come to expect from unprofitable, high-stakes companies. The social media company only has an annualized 8.8% revenue growth rate over the past three years. That's much lower than Meta Platforms' 19.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the same stretch. Today's Change Current Price It's impossible to even compare the two tech companies anymore. A few years ago, investors would look at Snap's earnings to gauge how Meta Platforms would perform, and vice versa. Few investors do that anymore. Meta Platforms earned more than $200 billion in revenue over the past year, while Snapchat generated less than $10 billion over the same stretch. Image source: Getty Images. The better comparison is Pinterest, but even then, it grows faster and actually makes a profit. Snap reported an $89

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok owner ByteDance have agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the platforms of causing addiction, disrupting learning, and forcing schools to spend large sums on student mental health support. According to Bloomberg, payout terms were not disclosed. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that comparable lawsuits could expose tech companies to a “collective theoretical liability” of almost $400 billion. Meta will continue to fight the case; a trial begins on June 12 in California. The Breathitt County School District in rural Kentucky sued the tech firms in 2024, accusing them of failing to implement robust age-verification processes and effective parental controls. It also accused them of not implementing opt-in restrictions on the length and frequency of usage, creating barriers that make it more difficult for users to delete or deactivate their accounts, and using algorithms to promote addictive engagement. The schools claimed this led to staff spending time on confiscating cell phones and other devices, as well as hiring additional staff to support student mental health and counseling. “This matter has been amicably resolved, and our focus remains on building age-appropriate products and parental controls that deliver on that promise,” YouTube told Reuters. Snap provided a similar statement. The news comes after Snap