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What courts, regulators and lawmakers now require of the companies whose products children use, and what the companies themselves have changed. Every entry links to the original document.

Court-ordered / enforcedUnder enforcementIn effect

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  1. Court-orderedNew Mexico, US
    Meta (Facebook, Instagram)

    Court rules platforms a public nuisance; $942m in total and five years of supervised changes for under-18s.

    Our analysis Original document
  2. In effectGlobal
    Roblox

    Age-based Roblox Kids and Roblox Select accounts; no chat without an age check.

    Our analysis Original document
  3. Enforced by FTCUnited States
    All covered platforms

    Take It Down Act enforced: intimate images removed within 48 hours of a valid request.

    Our analysis Original document
  4. Under enforcementAustralia
    Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube

    Regulator reports significant concerns on the under-16 minimum age and moves to enforcement.

    Our analysis Original document
  5. Jury verdictNew Mexico, US
    Meta

    Jury finds Meta misled consumers about child safety: $375m, the maximum penalty.

    Our analysis Original document
  6. Law in forceAustralia
    Age-restricted social media

    Platforms must take reasonable steps to keep under-16s off; about 4.7m accounts restricted in the first weeks.

    Our analysis Original document
  7. In effectUnited States first
    Character.AI

    Open-ended AI chat removed for users under 18.

    Our analysis Original document

We add an entry when there is a primary document: a judgment, a regulator’s publication, a law, or the company’s own announcement. Company announcements describe what the company says it has done; we report independent evidence of effect separately. Know of a development we should track? Tell us.

21.3m

reports of suspected child sexual exploitation to the US CyberTipline in 2025

Source: NCMEC
137

reports of financial sextortion a day, on average, in 2025

Source: NCMEC
3,443

AI-generated child sexual abuse videos confirmed in 2025, up more than 260-fold

Source: Internet Watch Foundation
98%

of sextortion cases the IWF handled in 2025 involved boys aged 14–17

Source: Internet Watch Foundation