🚨 Reuters SCOOP IRS is considering a citizenship question to tax forms this year as the Trump admin continues attempts to link federal agencies to its “mass deportation” agenda. The Form 1040 may include a checkbox for non- and dual-citizens. 🔗: www.reuters.com/world/us-tax...

Trump's AI executive order is off for now -- www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Meta on Thursday reached a settlement ​in the first case set for trial seeking ‌to make social media companies cover the costs that school districts say they have incurred to combat a mental health crisis allegedly fueled ​by platforms. www.reuters.com/world/meta-s...

President Donald Trump has postponed his plan to sign an executive order on AI on Thursday, he said. "Because I didn't like certain aspects of it," Trump said when asked why the signing was delayed.

Exclusive: Meta CEO tells employees he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year reut.rs/4tKXChi

Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. (From my colleague A.J. Vincens) www.reuters.com/business/fea...

Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Google's YouTube, TikTok and Snap settled a school district's social media addiction claims, allowing them to avoid a June trial. Meta is still headed to court. Thousands of similar lawsuits are pending.

Tech CEOs invited to US Capitol to testify about children's online safety reut.rs/4eQe8Jq

Four tech CEOs have been invited to testify before the U.S. Senate in June. The companies are Meta, Alphabet, TikTok and Snap. Topic is children's online safety. www.reuters.com/business/tec...

NEW: Meta and Google turned to some of the most trusted names in children's education — Girl Scouts, Highlights Magazine and Sesame Street — to deflect scrutiny over their impact on kids' mental health. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Scoop from me and Gabriel Stargardter in Paris: French authorities are investigating whether BlackCore - alleged to be an Israeli disinfo firm - interfered in the March municipal elections in Marseille, Toulouse, and Roubaix. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Banks are rushing to respond to IT weaknesses identified by Anthropic's AI tool Mythos. Mythos is an AI model with cybersecurity capabilities. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Have you read this? Super useful story on Google's growing role in American education - www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Here's what I'm reading this morning about kids & tech from across the U.S. (thread):

Roblox agrees to pay $10 million, make platform changes in Nevada settlement over child safety reut.rs/4svl8hL

Dispatch from Greece ahead of a possible social media ban for kids: www.reuters.com/business/med...

REUTERS: Meta, Alphabet shares fall after US jury verdicts on social media harm ➡️Facebook-parent Meta Platforms' shares extend losses, down 5.4% at $562.82 in an over 10-month low ➡️GOOGL down 1.5% at $286.56

The scene outside the Los Angeles courthouse yesterday after Google & Meta were found liable for designing social media apps that are harmful to young users. Images from Mike Blake at Reuters.

We opened the Reuters World News podcast this morning with Meta and Google's loss in a U.S. social media addiction case. 🎧Listen here: www.reuters.com/podcasts/met...

This verdict could mark a turning point in the global backlash against their platforms' perceived mental health harms to kids and teens, more than two decades after the emergence of social media. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Social media addiction trial verdict: -Meta found liable for negligence; failure to warn about Instagram's dangers -Google found liable for negligence; failure to warn about YouTube's dangers Jury awards $3 million in damages. 70% paid by Meta, 30% by Google @reuters.com

New: The jury has reached a verdict in the youth social media addiction trial involving Google and Meta, the judge said.

Also, beyond the money in the New Mexico case, there will be a bench trial in May to adjudicate NM's claim that Meta needs to change its product to comply with state law.

We are still waiting on a verdict in the LA social media addiction trial.

A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general. The AG accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those apps. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Reuters headline: Jury orders Meta to pay $375 million in New Mexico lawsuit over child sexual exploitation, user safety

The judge told the jury to keep deliberating. This jury has been deliberating for over a week at this point.

NEW: The jury in the LA social media addiction trial told the judge it is having trouble reaching consensus on one defendant. The defendants are Google & Meta.

The timing on this is interesting - Ready called for this ban while a trial is under way in Los Angeles about youth social ​media use. Google & Meta face allegations that their ​apps are fueling a youth mental health crisis. The ⁠jury is deliberating on a verdict. www.reuters.com/technology/p...

Bloomberg Law: “The Justice Department has waived a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to possess at least one year of experience practicing law, as US attorneys’ offices struggle to find qualified replacements following mass departures.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: A federal ​judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending legal protections next week that have allowed nearly 1,100 ​Somalis to live and work in ​the United States. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

The girls' school likely destroyed by an American missile had colorful murals *visible from space* as far back as 2018. By @pearswick.press & Ryan McNeil: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them* One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins* She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

"The Times analysis found that 300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

First lawsuit challenging TikTok deal: www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

The federal government wants to recruit attorneys after a year of cutting staff in nearly every agency.

Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was 'so irresponsible', shows court filing - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

President Donald Trump will deliver tonight's State of the Union address to Congress at a fraught moment for his presidency, with his approval ratings slumping, anxieties rising over Iran and Americans struggling with costs as the midterm election nears reut.rs/3MXxdh4

Nearly 1 in 5 users aged 13 to 15 told Meta that they saw “nudity or sexual images on Instagram” that they didn’t want to view, according to a court filing. My story 👇 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

New Secret Service protective detail agents are about to get a wardrobe upgrade, courtesy of taxpayers. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...

The National PTA is ending its relationship with Meta. PTA will not "pursue renewal funding" from the company to pay for digital safety trainings. Meta is facing a series of landmark lawsuits accusing the company of designing products that endanger kids' mental health. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/n...

Doctors bear the burden as ‘medical freedom’ fuels worst US measles outbreak in 30 years www.reuters.com/business/hea...

🔊 A visibly shaken Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor is photographed slumped in the back of his Range Rover after being released from police custody. Hear the latest on the widening royal scandal on the Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4qN5kpU

Do you ever have a problem singling one OMG section of a news story because the story has so many of them, one after another? This deeply reporterd @benjaminpenn.bsky.social piece, about a rogue DOJ honcho, is one of those. Below, just one example. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Bill Gates withdrew from an international gathering on AI hours before he was scheduled to speak on Thursday. www.reuters.com/world/india/...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

Reuters video of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg walking into court this morning in LA to testify in a case about social media addiction.