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With time limits and stronger age checks, Meta's new rules for kids go further. Critics say it's not enough

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Meta has agreed to strengthen its age estimates to keep kids under 13 off its platforms and teens in age-appropriate accounts, enact a hard limit of two hours a day for users under 18, block kids from the apps from midnight to 6 a.m., and hide "like" counts, among other changes. Newsiline summarises this report from PBS NewsHour Headlines and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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