Social media companies can't be forced to block teens from seeing 'harmful' content, judge rules

A federal judge has ruled that social media companies can't be required to block certain types of content from teens. The ruling will prevent some aspects of a controversial social media law in Texas from going into effect. The ruling came as the result of tech industry groups' challenge to the Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act, a Texas law that imposes age verification requirements and other policies for how social media companies treat teenage users. But, as The...