Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” ...

Bluesky is adding age verification to its platform in the UK as part of efforts to comply with the country’s Online Safety ...

Bluesky users in the UK will soon need to verify their age if they want continued access to direct messages and all of the ...

Purveyors of online pornography will have to verify that their customers are adults before giving access to the content, according to a new state law.

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Texas’ age verification law for porn websites will likely have a ripple effect across the internet — and not just for the vast numbers of people who watch online ...

From July 25, many platforms without age verification in the UK will face heavy fines. Bluesky users will now have to prove ...

This means that Texas’s requirement for verification applies not only to children and teenagers but to adult internet users too. While the Supreme Court decision tries to limit its application to ...

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages through ...

The rules around age verification were passed by the government in a bid to limit harmful online content, though experts have ...

Australians will be required to verify their age when logged into Google or other search engines before the end of the year, as part of broader sweeping crackdowns on harmful content that include the ...

Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being ...

Discord has increased its default server member cap from 500,000 to 2.5 million, allowing larger online communities to continue growing.