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Courtney Rozen

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Tech reporter at Reuters based in D.C. I used to write about federal workers and DOGE. Former White House reporter @ Bloomberg Government. 📧: courtney.rozen@thomsonreuters.com 📞 Signal: courtneyrozen.94

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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is telling the public and the IRS two different stories about its data centers, allowing the company to save $ on taxes. Really good NYT story --> www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New from Reuters: President Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of shares and sold as ​much as $15,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in July, according ‌to a public financial disclosure, his latest transactions involving a government contractor run by his former adviser. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Trump bought and sold shares in Musk's SpaceX in July, financial disclosure shows
US President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of shares and sold as ​much as $15,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in July, according ‌to a public financial disclosure, his latest transactions inv...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A US government website employed an AI tool from a Chinese company despite the FBI accusing the tool’s developer of "malicious" copying of US technology. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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US government website used AI search tool from China that FBI said copied Anthropic
A US government website employed an AI model from a Chinese company for users to search ​proposed federal regulations despite the FBI accusing the model's developer, Alibaba , of "malicious" copying o...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump invested as much as $50,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run by his former adviser. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Trump bought shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX in June, financial disclosure shows
U.S. President Donald Trump invested as much ​as $50,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in June, according to ‌a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run b...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just asked an AI chatbot to provide a source for a claim it made. Here was part of the response: "That is exactly the kind of hallucinated detail that would be catastrophic in a Reuters story. I apologize for including it." 😬
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode involving ‌AI firm Hugging Face. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests
Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a ​configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 28/07/2026
The tech firm is Modal. Their executives emphasized that it was one of their clients, not them, that was hacked. www.reuters.com/business/ope...
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OpenAI's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, sources say
The rogue agent that escaped ‌from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at ​the AI firm Hugging ​Face also compromised a customer at ⁠a second tech company — ​New York-based Modal Labs — accor...
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are living in a sci-fi movie. The robot went rogue. 🤖 www.reuters.com/technology/o...
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OpenAI AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup
OpenAI said an autonomous agent escaped containment, reached the internet and hacked startup Hugging Face. The incident signals that AI's capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts l...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Anthropic spending more $ on politics www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Anthropic to donate $20 million to US political group that supports AI regulation
AI giant Anthropic will donate $20 million to a lobbying organization that supports AI regulation, according to a company statement ​released on Wednesday, its latest move to influence U.S. policy ‌on...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Youth social media bans are spreading, this time to France. President Emmanuel Macron wants a ban for children under 15 in place in time for the start of the next academic year. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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French parliament backs social media ban for children under 15
French lawmakers approved on Tuesday a ban on social media access for children under the age of ​15, as concerns grow around the world over the impact social media ‌have on the health and safety of mi...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW: TikTok U.S. executive to testify in Congress on September 15. This is the first time a company exec will testify publicly in the U.S. House since the company’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, finalized a deal to split the U.S. app from its global business. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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TikTok US chief security officer to testify before US House on September 15
TikTok U.S. chief security officer Will Farrell will testify before a U.S. ​House committee on September 15, according to a ‌Congressional aide.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW: U.S. Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler multiplied the value of her investment in Elon Musk's SpaceX after she was nominated for the ‌job, earning millions of dollars from the company's record initial public offering, a Reuters review of her financial disclosures showed.
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SpaceX IPO earns millions for US Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler
U.S. Small Business ​Administration head Kelly Loeffler multiplied the value of her investment in Elon Musk's SpaceX after she was nominated for the ‌job, earning millions of dollars from the company'...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/07/2026
Court says Meta must turn over 'youth-user wellbeing' records to D.C. attorney general reut.rs/3To7eSJ
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Court says Meta must turn over 'youth-user wellbeing' records to D.C. attorney general
Meta Platforms failed on Thursday to persuade Washington, D.C.'s top court to halt a ​judge's order requiring it to hand over internal documents to the District of Columbia attorney general as part of a ‌lawsuit accusing the social media company of deceiving consumers about the safety of Facebook and Instagram for children.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
👀 from NYT: Ken Paxton recently bought three Utah luxury condos worth $1.6 million. On the deeds, Mr. Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. A woman who is not his wife lives there, according to police records. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
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Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio
The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Opposition to AI data centers is among the few issues that unite U.S. voters across ideological lines. My colleagues wrote about how the fight over those centers is playing out in Michigan: www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
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Americans are angry about data centers. Politicians are feeling the pressure
From Michigan Avenue, Saline Township looks like any other farming community, with its corn and soybean fields, silos and grain elevators.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a ‌policy that targets foreign nationals who study disinformation and hate speech on social media for visa denials and deportation. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
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US judge blocks Trump administration's visa limits for social media researchers
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a ‌policy that targets foreign nationals who study disinformation and hate speech on social media for vis...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Foreign actors are trying to stoke debate in the U.S. over data centers -- www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/b...
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China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate Over A.I. Data Centers
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Factory electricity bills are rising for manufacturers across America’s heartland, as power-hungry data centers serving the artificial intelligence industry ‌proliferate. Click below to read Laila Kearney's full story on those rising costs 👇
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Big Tech data centers are driving up power bills at America's Rust Belt factories
For years, electricity costs for the Belden Brick Company in Sugarcreek, Ohio, had been relatively stable. Last year, they surged by 90% — largely because of rising power demand from data centers in t...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
META LAYOFFS: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings ‌in the company's sweeping restructuring at an internal meeting on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed as quickly as he had expected, per a recording heard by Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
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EXCLUSIVE: Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings ‌in the company's sweeping restructuring at an internal town hall on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed a...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"All three kidnapping-related messages that have surfaced in news media reports about the disappearance of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother have been deemed by federal investigators to be fake communications, an FBI official ​told Reuters." www.reuters.com/business/med...
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI determines Nancy Guthrie kidnapping notes to be fakes, source says
All three kidnapping-related messages that have surfaced in news media reports about the disappearance of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother have been deemed by federal investigato...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back to work today after time away. 😬
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Puss In Boots: What Did I Miss?
ALT: Puss In Boots: What Did I Miss?
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
President Trump said he is exploring options to give the public a ​stake in leading AI companies. Ideas on how to do that are piling up --> www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
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Three ways Trump could get a stake in AI firms for the US
U.S. President Donald Trump said he is exploring options to give the public a ​stake in leading AI companies, in response to concerns that individual Americans will not share in the sector’s expected ...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oracle won a U.S. contract to provide HR software for federal agencies. Oracle's exec chair is Larry Ellison, a longtime Trump supporter. I asked about whether that relationship influenced the selection. The Trump admin said staff completed hands-on tests and market research before picking Oracle.
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Oracle awarded US contract to provide government-wide HR software
President Donald Trump's administration has awarded Oracle a contract to provide a U.S. government-wide HR platform, according to a statement, making the company a partner ​in its effort to overhaul f...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Half of Americans fear that the ​rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. www.reuters.com/business/wor...
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Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Half of Americans fear that the ​rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll ‌that also showed widespread angst at how widely the technol...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Here we go: OpenAI confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO on Monday. Updates will be posted from Reuters at link below. www.reuters.com/technology/o...
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OpenAI files for US IPO after Anthropic as AI giants head to public markets
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Monday, joining rival Anthropic in a push toward the stock market as investors seek exposure to the artificial intellige...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/06/2026
Trump administration to ask US AI firms to voluntarily submit models for cybersecurity tests reut.rs/4arFxOz
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Trump administration to ask US AI firms to voluntarily submit models for cybersecurity tests
The Trump administration will ask leading AI developers to voluntarily submit their most capable models ‌for government cybersecurity tests before releasing them to the public, according to an executive order released on Tuesday, as security fears mount in Washington over powerful new AI systems such as Anthropic's Mythos.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Republican officials are split over how to keep kids safe online. Here's the latest example of that -- www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Republican attorneys general split with House party members over US social media bill
More than a dozen Republican attorneys general said they oppose a children's online safety bill backed ​by their party's members of the U.S. House of Representatives, ‌according to a letter released o...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here's the Trump administration's latest effort to stop federal workers from talking to journalists. His administration on Tuesday proposed giving federal agencies the option to require employees to sign non-disclosure agreements. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump administration proposes NDAs for federal workers to crack down on leaks to journalists
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed giving federal agencies the option to require employees to sign non-disclosure agreements with the goal of preventing them from sharing...
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 Reuters SCOOP IRS is considering a citizenship question to tax forms this year as the Trump admin continues attempts to link federal agencies to its “mass deportation” agenda. The Form 1040 may include a checkbox for non- and dual-citizens. 🔗: www.reuters.com/world/us-tax...
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Exclusive: US tax officials consider adding citizenship question to tax forms
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is debating requiring taxpayers to disclose their citizenship status on next ​year's tax forms, according to three people familiar ‌with the situation, as the Trump a...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Trump's AI executive order is off for now -- www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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Trump postpones AI executive order, cites need to compete with China
U.S. ​President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had postponed signing an executive order ‌on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine t...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Meta on Thursday reached a settlement ​in the first case set for trial seeking ‌to make social media companies cover the costs that school districts say they have incurred to combat a mental health crisis allegedly fueled ​by platforms. www.reuters.com/world/meta-s...
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Meta settles first US case over school costs tied to youth mental health, court filing shows
Meta Platforms on Thursday reached a settlement ​in the first case set for trial seeking ‌to make social media companies cover the costs that school districts say they have incurred to combat a mental...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
President Donald Trump has postponed his plan to sign an executive order on AI on Thursday, he said. "Because I didn't like certain aspects of it," Trump said when asked why the signing was delayed.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20/05/2026
Exclusive: Meta CEO tells employees he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year reut.rs/4tKXChi
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Exclusive: Meta CEO tells employees he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an ​internal memo on Wednesday that he does not expect ‌more company-wide layoffs this year, according to a copy of the memo seen by Reuters.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. (From my colleague A.J. Vincens) www.reuters.com/business/fea...
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Fears of unfettered hacking spurred by Anthropic's Mythos AI model overstated
Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI
A U.S. jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial ​intelligence company not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from ‌it...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Google's YouTube, TikTok and Snap settled a school district's social media addiction claims, allowing them to avoid a June trial. Meta is still headed to court. Thousands of similar lawsuits are pending.
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YouTube, Snap and TikTok settle school district's social media addiction claims
Alphabet's YouTube, Snap and TikTok have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in ​litigation seeking to force social media platforms to cover the costs school districts ‌incur to combat...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/05/2026
Tech CEOs invited to US Capitol to testify about children's online safety reut.rs/4eQe8Jq
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Tech CEOs invited to US Capitol to testify about children's online safety
The CEOs ​of Meta , Alphabet , TikTok and Snap have been invited back to Capitol Hill to answer questions from U.S. ‌lawmakers about children’s online safety, according to a Senate aide.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Four tech CEOs have been invited to testify before the U.S. Senate in June. The companies are Meta, Alphabet, TikTok and Snap. Topic is children's online safety. www.reuters.com/business/tec...
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Tech CEOs summoned to US Capitol for June hearing
The CEOs of Meta , Alphabet , TikTok and Snap have been invited back to ​Capitol Hill to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers about children’s online safety, ‌according to a Senate aide.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
NEW: Meta and Google turned to some of the most trusted names in children's education — Girl Scouts, Highlights Magazine and Sesame Street — to deflect scrutiny over their impact on kids' mental health. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Big Tech turns to Sesame Street, Girl Scouts to deflect scrutiny over kids' screen time
Meta and Google enlisted trusted children's brands such as Sesame Street, Girl Scouts and Highlights magazine to teach kids to use technology in moderation - even as the companies designed apps that m...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 13/05/2026
Scoop from me and Gabriel Stargardter in Paris: French authorities are investigating whether BlackCore - alleged to be an Israeli disinfo firm - interfered in the March municipal elections in Marseille, Toulouse, and Roubaix. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Exclusive: France probes whether Israeli firm BlackCore interfered in local elections, sources say
French authorities are examining whether a foreign interference campaign aimed at a hard-left party ahead of March's municipal elections was carried out at least in part by an obscure Israeli firm cal...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Banks are rushing to respond to IT weaknesses identified by Anthropic's AI tool Mythos. Mythos is an AI model with cybersecurity capabilities. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Anthropic's Mythos sends US banks rushing to plug cyber holes
U.S. banks are rushing to fix scores of IT system weaknesses flagged by Anthropic’s powerful but costly Mythos AI tool, prompting urgent repairs, software upgrades and raising the possibility of ​disr...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Have you read this? Super useful story on Google's growing role in American education - www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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How YouTube Took Over the American Classroom
Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Here's what I'm reading this morning about kids & tech from across the U.S. (thread):
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/04/2026
Roblox agrees to pay $10 million, make platform changes in Nevada settlement over child safety reut.rs/4svl8hL
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Roblox agrees to pay $10 million, make platform changes in Nevada settlement over child safety
Interactive gaming platform Roblox has reached ​a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users, agreeing to pay $10 million to ‌the state and make nationwide changes to how it allows children to use its chat and gaming functions, the state’s attorney general said on Wednesday.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Dispatch from Greece ahead of a possible social media ban for kids: www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Ahead of Greek social media ban, parents desperate to separate children from phones
Greek mother Georgia ​Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that social media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart talks; ‌internet-free time; confiscating his phone. Arguments flar...
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
REUTERS: Meta, Alphabet shares fall after US jury verdicts on social media harm ➡️Facebook-parent Meta Platforms' shares extend losses, down 5.4% at $562.82 in an over 10-month low ➡️GOOGL down 1.5% at $286.56
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The scene outside the Los Angeles courthouse yesterday after Google & Meta were found liable for designing social media apps that are harmful to young users. Images from Mike Blake at Reuters.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We opened the Reuters World News podcast this morning with Meta and Google's loss in a U.S. social media addiction case. 🎧Listen here: www.reuters.com/podcasts/met...
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Meta and Google’s reckoning, Israel’s Lebanon plan and Maduro in court
A jury finds Meta and Google liable for harming children’s mental health by designing addictive social media platforms.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This verdict could mark a turning point in the global backlash against their platforms' perceived mental health harms to kids and teens, more than two decades after the emergence of social media. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to youth
Alphabet's Google and Meta were found liable on Wednesday for designing platforms that are dangerous for teens, in a landmark verdict that could ‌force tech firms to rethink how they defend themselves...
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