In the wake of Meta's landmark $12.7 billion settlement over the deliberate engineering of addictive experiences for young users, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has signaled his company's willingness to follow suit with default daily time limits for teenagers — a quiet but consequential shift in an industry long resistant to self-restraint. The moment reflects a broader reckoning: that the architecture of attention, built to capture the young and hold them, is now being weighed against the cost of what it has taken from them. Whether this openness hardens into policy, and whether others follow, will de
Snapchat open to teen time limits as Meta pushes industry-wide changes
Youth mental health crisis linked to social media platform design and addictive features targeting minors.