Protecting children

Meta offers publishers a mobster's bargain - sell us AI or stay blocked

#443: Social's #1 bully has gone live on TV offering a dirty protection racket to reinstate news if they agree to feed its next big bet...

Feb 16 • Ricky Sutton

Snap’s rare profit comes with a teen-sized asterisk

#442: When Wall Street bailed up CEO Evan Spiegel for selling ads to teens, he said it wasn't material - but was that true?

Feb 11 • Ricky Sutton

Substack's rolled out recipes so I thought I'd give it a go

#438: Today, a cocktail of poisonous rhetoric with hints of hate and self-harm, sautéed over greed, and guaranteed to leave a bitter aftertaste. Can be…

Feb 4 • Ricky Sutton

Inside the incentives that drove Meta to endanger kids

#438: A landmark court case and latest financial filings strip back how harms were ignored in the drive for unrelenting shareholder growth...

Feb 2 • Ricky Sutton

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Ads led Meta to link 1.4 million kids with predators in a day

#437: Social's record profits disguise a social tragedy, leading Australia and countries around the world to act on child harms...

Feb 2 • Ricky Sutton and Nathan Witkin

Meta insiders break cover on Australia's under-16s ban

#428: Two former chiefs reveal that Zuck knows how young kids are but chooses growth over safety - and how Australia can reset the world...

Dec 15, 2025 • Ricky Sutton, Kelly Stonelake, and Brian Boland

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What's success for Oz's world first social media under-16 ban

#426: Platforms are suing and kids are dodging the rules, but the real test will be whether Australia can prove the ban actually reduces harm...

Dec 12, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Chris Duncan

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Australia's social media delay on under-16s is just the start

#425: Youngsters woke today to find themselves blocked from social apps as a world first child safety law came into effect, but this is just phase…

Dec 10, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

AIs target vulnerable toddlers on YouTube for ad revenue

#424: Hours before Australia begins a legal ban on YouTube for under-16s, a report reveals AI is targeting toddlers under two on the video platform...

Dec 9, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Ex-Meta director begs former colleagues to halt child harm

#350: "I believed the leadership and internal propaganda about our ambitions and priorities and value. I feel tremendous guilt," she says.

Jun 26, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Meta's misogynistic culture puts kids at risk, warns insider

#345: A director who worked on Zuck's Metaverse claims execs treat perverts preying on kids as "a distraction from business goals"...

Jun 14, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

TikTok hurts kids in $16 billion fraud - US alleges

#343: TikTok lies about protecting kids and “engages in repeated and persistent fraud” according to bombshell case brought by 14 US States...

Jun 12, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell

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