Slate Money Canadian Beef
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Aug 29, 2026 
Scarlet Fu, television journalist and Bloomberg Money producer focused on personal finance and markets. They unpack Meta’s $17 billion settlement and what it means for teen safeguards. They dig into the fraught U.S.-Canada trade spat and retaliatory tariffs. They debate Treasury interventions and how bond-market tinkering ripples through yields.
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Specific Teen Limits Meta Agreed To
- Meta will impose two-hour daily limits, midnight–6 a.m. blocks, fewer school-hour notifications, chronological feed option, and hide likes for under-18s.
- Elizabeth Spiers outlines the concrete product changes aimed at teen exposures on Instagram and Facebook.
Practical Bypass Risks Undermine Teen Protections
- The settlement's safety measures can be bypassed: parents must opt in or teens can misstate ages to evade limits.
- Emily Peck warns age verification is weak and parental controls rely on tech-savvy parents.
Social Media Is Not The Whole Teen Mental Health Story
- Social media may be a convenient scapegoat for teen mental-health declines, but underlying structural changes also matter.
- Elizabeth Spiers points to pandemic-era disruption, online schooling, and economic pressures complicating causal claims.