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Google, Meta and TikTok sue California to block child social media law

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, and have sued California to block enforcement of Assembly Bill 1709. The law bans social media platforms from offering under-16s features such as autoplay and personalised recommendations that could drive compulsive use, and requires deletion of children's accounts that have those features.

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