The accountability tracker is now live. It follows the decisions that change what companies must do to protect children online: court rulings, laws coming into force, regulators moving to enforcement, and changes platforms make to their own products.
What it contains at launch
Seven entries, from November 2025 to August 2026:
| Date | Development | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Aug 2026 | New Mexico court orders five years of changes to Facebook and Instagram for under-18s | Court-ordered |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Roblox makes age-based accounts global; no chat without an age check | In effect |
| 19 May 2026 | US Take It Down Act enforced: 48-hour removal of intimate images | Enforced by FTC |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Australia's regulator moves to enforcement on the under-16 minimum age | Under enforcement |
| 24 Mar 2026 | New Mexico jury finds Meta misled consumers about child safety | Jury verdict |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Australia's social media minimum age takes effect | Law in force |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Character.AI removes open-ended chat for under-18s | In effect |
The rules for an entry
An entry needs a primary document: a judgment, a regulator's publication, a law, or the company's own announcement. Company announcements are labelled as what the company says it has done; where independent evidence of the effect exists, we report it separately.
What comes next
The tracker is the first part of our planned Platform Safety Observatory. We will add entries as decisions are made, starting with the six-monthly compliance reports Meta must file in New Mexico. Suggestions for developments to track are welcome through our contact page.
