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Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, will pay up to $18 billion US in a landmark U.S. case. The tech giant will also make big changes to how youth use its platforms, including time limits. What does this settlement mean for the future of social media, and the effort to keep kids safe?
We're joined by Clare Duffy, a tech reporter for CNN Business who breaks down the settlement, Taylor Owen, the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications at McGill University, who sat on the government's advisory panel on online safety, looks at what this could mean for social media users in Canada, and Ben Waldman, the Co-founder and CEO of Gander Social, a new Canadian social media network, talks about the challenges of making a safe and ethical social media platform.
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