NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin Gloria Steinem speaks in the Charles E. Young Grand Salon at noon on Thursday about the importance of youth vote in the upcoming elections.

Kids under 18 will soon see a host of changes to their Instagram and Facebook experiences thanks to a historic $18 billion settlement Meta Platforms reached Wednesday with 48 U.S. states.

A year after Israeli strikes on a Gaza hospital killed 22 Palestinians, there are still major questions about the rationale for the attack.

The union representing the laid-off staff says the move raises concerns about the quality of future coverage

A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids...

Opening statements started Tuesday in a pivotal trial for Meta Platforms in a California federal court, where states are seeking billions of dollars in damages for social media harms to children.

Letter from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: To reflect who we are and the future we hope to build, I'm proud to share that our company is now Meta.

Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.”

82 likes, 1 comments - apnewsguild on April 20, 2026: "AP journalists in the U.S. are on the frontlines providing essential news coverage and documenting history each and every day. AP was there bec...

It’s too soon to tell if this week’s jury decisions will lead to fundamental changes in how social media treats its young users.

A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms.

Bad Bunny delivered a historic performance at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show that brought Puerto Rican culture and history to the fore.

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual. The agency announced the decision Wednesday but gave no reason for it.

The shooting deaths of two American citizens at the hands of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis have upended the politics of the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.

Children’s and consumer advocacy groups are urging parents not to buy AI-powered toys during the holiday season.

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly ...

Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

It was a simpler time online, her son recalls—and his no-nonsense mother broke through the noise for all the right reasons

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13.

A study finds that AI chatbots often avoid answering high-risk suicide questions but are inconsistent with less direct prompts.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital.

Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33.

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.