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To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App


The European Commission "proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15," reports Reuters. "Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself" — a free, open-source age verification smartphone app "that tells a platform wheth...

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