Did California just ban social media for teens?
THE SO WHAT
California just turned child safety, social media access, and AI exposure into a compliance surface — not a UX choice. If you touch under-18 users in the US, route this to legal and product this week and map where your onboarding, age-gating, and recommendation systems will need hard changes.
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