{"id":1047374,"date":"2026-11-06T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047374"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:16:07","slug":"google-meta-tiktok-sue-to-block-california-youth-social-media-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/google-meta-tiktok-sue-to-block-california-youth-social-media-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Meta, TikTok sue to block California youth social media law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended to limit the risk of addicting children under age 16 to social media platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The law, known as Assembly Bill 1709, prohibits such platforms from offering underage children &#8220;psychologically exploitative features&#8221; that could lead to compulsive use, such as providing personal recommendations and sending videos through autoplay features. It also requires the deletion of children&#8217;s accounts with those features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Meta Platforms and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended to limit the risk of addicting children under age 16 to social media platforms. The law, known as Assembly Bill 1709, prohibits such platforms from offering underage children &#8220;psychologically exploitative features&#8221; that could lead to compulsive use, such as providing personal recommendations and sending videos through autoplay features. It also requires the deletion of children&#8217;s accounts with those features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047374","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047396,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047374\/revisions\/1047396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}