Tech giants Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms , Snapchat and TikTok have urged Australia to reconsider a decision to exempt Alphabet's YouTube from its laws banning social media for children ...

Now, some of those companies — namely Meta, TikTok and Snap — are not happy at one exception: YouTube. Australia has deemed YouTube as a critical education tool and is allowing use ...

One solution: Pay one of his biggest rivals for help. Meta's Instagram ran ad campaigns on Google's YouTube targeting kids earlier this year, the Financial Times reports. That is: Meta paid Google ...