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| 2025 | Following Donald Trump's election, sources noted potential censorship of Democratic Party-related content on Instagram and other Meta platforms. |
| 2025 | Inducted in the Games section of Forbes 30 under 30. |
| February 2025 | Oral arguments for the lawsuit challenging HB 3 are scheduled to take place on either February 27 or 28. |
| February 2025 | Meta announced plans to roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, citing shifts in the legal and policy landscape. |
| February 12 2025 | Twitter settled Trump's lawsuit for $10 million. |
| February 10 2025 | A public hearing was held for testimonies supporting or opposing the social media age verification bill, with Attorney General William Tong submitting testimony in support of protecting children from addictive algorithms. |
| February 6 2025 | Alabama House of Representatives introduced HB 235, a bill requiring social media platforms to prohibit users under 16 and implement age verification measures. |
| February 5 2025 | HB 6587 was introduced to the Connecticut General Assembly as a proposed bill to regulate social media platforms, focusing on age verification and protections for minors. |
| February 5 2025 | H 5291 was introduced to the Rhode Island General Assembly, proposing comprehensive social media age verification and minor protection regulations for platforms with over 5 million users. |
| February 4 2025 | A photograph was taken showing the New York Post front cover with Trump's mug shot framed in a golden frame near the Oval Office, during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| February 3 2025 | The Virginia State Senate unanimously passes SB 854 with a 40-0 vote, modifying the original bill to lower the age of parental consent from 18 to 16 for social media platform usage. |
| February 3 2025 | The 83rd Nevada Legislature begins, which will further consider the proposed SB 63 social media age verification bill. |
| January 2025 | Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle the 2021 lawsuit filed by Trump over his social media suspension. |
| January 2025 | Over 100 Reddit communities banned users from posting links from X social media site in response to Elon Musk's controversial arm gesture, which critics claimed resembled a Nazi salute. |
| January 2025 | Meta faced significant criticism for removing LGBTQ+ content from its platforms, with activists arguing that the content moderation policies inadvertently stifled LGBTQ+ visibility and expression. |
| January 2025 | Meta ended its use of third-party fact-checkers and replaced them with a user-run community notes system, despite criticism from fact-checking institutions. |
| January 2025 | Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit brought by Donald Trump for suspending his social media accounts after the January 6 riots. |
| January 23 2025 | SB 11 passed the Indiana Senate with a 42-7 vote, advancing the proposed social media age verification legislation. |
| January 17 2025 | The Trump transition team released inaugural portraits, with Trump's reportedly inspired by his 2023 mug shot, maintaining a similar defiant expression. |
| January 17 2025 | The Trump transition team releases official portraits of Trump and VP-elect JD Vance, with Trump's expression reportedly inspired by his 2023 mug shot. |
| January 17 2025 | The Parental Rights in Social Media Act (LB 383) is officially introduced by Tanya Storer, with multiple co-sponsors including Beau Ballard, Carolyn Bosn, and others, proposing mandatory age verification and parental consent for minors' social media usage. |
| January 17 2025 | Trump's inaugural portrait was released, reportedly inspired by his 2023 mug shot, with a stern expression similar to the booking photograph. |
| January 15 2025 | SB 11 passed out of Indiana's Judiciary Committee with a 10-1 vote, with Rodney Pol casting the only dissenting vote due to implementation concerns. |
| January 13 2025 | Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers announce plans to introduce the Parental Rights in Social Media Act, targeting social media age verification for minors. |
| January 8 2025 | Indiana State Senator Mike Bohacek introduced SB 11, requiring social media operators to verify user ages and obtain parental consent for users under 16. |
| January 3 2025 | Schuyler VanValkenburg introduces SB 854 to the Virginia State Senate, proposing age verification requirements for social media platforms, initially setting the age of parental consent at 18. |
| January 2 2025 | Judge Edward John Davila granted NetChoice's motion to delay the effective date of SB 976 from January 1, 2025 to February 1, 2025. |
| January 2 2025 | NetChoice appealed the SB 976 case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. |
| January 2 2025 | Planned dissolution date for the proposed Age-Appropriate Design Task Force established under the SB196 bill. |
| January 1 2025 | NetChoice filed a motion to block the full SB 976 law during the appeals process and claimed the court misinterpreted the Moody v. NetChoice Supreme Court case. |
| January 1 2025 | Proposed effective date for the bill, had it been enacted, which would have mandated parental consent for social media accounts for minors in Idaho. |
| January 1 2025 | Proposed full enforcement date of the bill by the Attorney General of North Carolina, had the legislation been passed. |
| January 1 2025 | The Tennessee social media age verification law (HB 1891) is set to take effect, mandating age verification and parental controls for social media accounts of users under 18. |
| 2024 | Trump was named Time's Person of the Year and humorously posted a meme referencing his mug shot. |
| 2024 | Donald Trump was named Time's person of the year for 2024 and humorously shared a meme featuring his mug shot with the caption 'How it started' alongside his Time front cover captioned 'How it's going'. |
| 2024 | Meta attracted criticism for continuing to disseminate a proven false video of US President Joe Biden. |
| 2024 | Commentated for the second edition of the GeoGuessr World Cup. |
| 2024 | Investigative articles from multiple sources revealed that OnlyFans creators commonly use chatters and chatbots to impersonate themselves in communications with subscribers, despite promising direct interaction. Two U.S. federal class-action lawsuits were filed against OnlyFans and associated agencies alleging consumer fraud. |
| 2024 | OnlyFans posted revenues of $1.3 billion up to 30 November 2023, representing a 20% increase from the previous year, and paid $150 million in UK corporation tax in 2023. |
| 2024 | Investigative articles revealed that many OnlyFans creators use chatters and chatbots to impersonate themselves in messages with subscribers, despite promising direct personal interactions. These revelations led to two U.S. federal class-action lawsuits alleging consumer fraud against OnlyFans and associated agencies. |
| December 2024 | Reddit announces Reddit Answers, an AI search tool that summarizes conversations in response to user questions. |
| December 2024 | Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration fund for then-President-elect Donald Trump. |
| December 31 2024 | Judge Edward John Davila partially blocked SB 976, specifically sections related to notification restrictions, minor account access, and annual reporting requirements. |
| December 17 2024 | A hearing was held in the Northern District Court of California for NetChoice's motion for a preliminary injunction against SB 976. |
| December 11 2024 | Meta experienced a global outage affecting all social media and messaging applications, with over 70,000 Instagram and 100,000 Facebook outage reports. |
| December 8 2024 | The New York Times published a report highlighting the use of Bigo Live for paid sexual exploitation of children. The company responded by claiming to have taken 'appropriate action' including account suspensions and content removal. |
| December 4 2024 | Meta announced a $10 billion investment in its largest AI data center in northeast Louisiana, to be powered by natural gas facilities. |
| November 2024 | Mahmoud Reza Banki joined X Corp as its first publicly announced chief financial officer. |
| November 2024 | Meta closed 2 million accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to scam centers in multiple countries performing 'pig butchering' scams. |
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