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The European Union is working on new regulations to rein in social media business models in an effort to better protect children and young people online.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the harms caused by exposure to social media are not accidental, but stem from business models that treat children’s attention as a commodity.

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00:00The European Union is working on regulations to rein in on social media's business models to protect children and youth.
00:08European Commission's President Ursula von der Leyen says this is because the many damages caused to children and youth by
00:15exposure to social media
00:17are no accident but the result of business models that treat our children's attention as commodity.
00:24The question is not whether young people should have access to social media.
00:30The question is whether social media should have access to young people.
00:36And that is why we have made children's right a priority in our rules for the development and use of
00:42AI.
00:43And later this year we will target addictive and harmful design practices with the Digital Fairness Act.
00:52So attention capture, complex contracts, subscription traps, etc.
00:58In Europe, safety must be there from the start, not added as an afterthought.
01:06She added that the EU is specifically targeting TikTok, Axe and Meta platforms Instagram and Facebook.
01:13The Commission has also started proceedings against Axe for the use of its Grok artificial intelligence tool
01:20in creating sexual images of women and children.
01:23Later this year, according to her, the Commission will target addictive and harmful design practices
01:29such as attention capture, complex contracts and subscription traps.
01:33outp bite.
01:33Here we are from corsa KoIP in this video.
01:33Let's do a few slides episode.
01:34Meanwhile we use the representative from Hä Nigeria there.
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