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The European Union is set to impose its toughest online-safety regulations on major digital platforms, extending the new rules to generative-AI services such as ChatGPT as well as social sites like Reddit and gaming platforms such as Roblox. The measures will require these services to implement stricter content-moderation, risk-assessment and user-protection mechanisms under the EU’s Digital Services Act.
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Meta has quietly launched a new standalone app called Forum that functions like Reddit for Facebook Groups, displaying a feed of group conversations. The iOS-only app includes an AI-powered “Ask” feature that lets users pose questions to the platform. It blends elements of Reddit, Facebook and Google AI in its design.
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Google has updated its AI search features to include “expert advice” from Reddit and other web forums. The new AI Mode and AI Overviews now display a preview of perspectives from firsthand sources such as social media, presented as expert commentary. This change expands the range of user-generated content available in search results.
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Reddit has been fined roughly £14.5 million by the UK regulator for unlawfully using children’s personal information after the platform failed to verify user ages aggressively enough, relying on self-declaration. The company began implementing age-verification checks in July 2025 to meet UK online safety requirements.
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Moltbook, an AI-only social network, has grown from about 30,000 users at the end of January to more than 1.5 million by early February. Many viral posts on the platform appear to have been scripted by humans, raising concerns that chatbots are pretending to be autonomous agents. The rapid expansion has sparked worry about AI systems acting on their own terms.
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