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Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code from the U.K. Internet regulator will push tech firms to run ...

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Meta banned filters that “encourage plastic surgery,” but a massive demand for beauty augmentation on social media is complicating matters. In October 2021, Facebook announced a massive pivot, ...

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We are increasingly curating our online personas, handpicking the images we share and choosing to present ourselves through a “beautification” lens. This shift has given rise to a quiet revolution: ...