{"id":88257,"date":"2024-05-17T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T05:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=88257"},"modified":"2024-05-17T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T05:49:05","slug":"meta-slapped-with-child-safety-probe-under-sweeping-eu-tech-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2024\/meta-slapped-with-child-safety-probe-under-sweeping-eu-tech-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Meta slapped with child safety probe under sweeping EU tech law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Facebook parent company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\">Meta<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday was hit with a major investigation from the European Union into alleged breaches of the bloc\u2019s strict online content law over child safety risks. The European Commission, the EU\u2019s executive body, said in a statement that it is investigating whether the social media giant\u2019s Facebook and Instagram platforms \u201cmay stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called \u2018rabbit-hole effects.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/05\/16\/meta-slapped-with-formal-eu-probe-over-child-safety-risks.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Facebook parent company\u00a0Meta\u00a0on Thursday was hit with a major investigation from the European Union into alleged breaches of the bloc\u2019s strict online content law over child safety risks. The European Commission, the EU\u2019s executive body, said in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88258,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88257\/revisions\/88258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}