{"id":1031537,"date":"2026-08-27T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031537"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:42:15","slug":"time-limits-and-a-midnight-cutoff-metas-new-rules-for-kids-go-further-but-critics-say-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/time-limits-and-a-midnight-cutoff-metas-new-rules-for-kids-go-further-but-critics-say-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Time limits and a midnight cutoff: Meta\u2019s new rules for kids go further, but critics say not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the money, which will be paid out over a decade, Meta has agreed to strengthen its age estimates to keep kids under 13 off its platforms and teens in age-appropriate accounts, enact a hard limit of two hours a day for users under 18, block kids from the apps from midnight to 6 a.m., and hide \u201clike\u201d counts, among other changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 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. Besides the money, which will be paid out over a decade, Meta has agreed to strengthen its age estimates to keep kids under 13 off its platforms and teens in age-appropriate accounts, enact a hard limit of two hours a day for users under 18, block kids from the apps from midnight to 6 a.m., and hide \u201clike\u201d counts, among other changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031538,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031537\/revisions\/1031538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}