Every public safety claim is something someone can test
State attorneys general are testing whether what platforms told parents about safety matches what happened, as in Florida's new consumer protection suit against Discord. Give one person the list of public safety claims, attach the evidence behind each, be exact about age checks, and recheck the list whenever the product changes.
What I'm reading: an open policy model, Xbox's adult checks, Discord in Brazil and KOSA
An open-weights model that scores a message against your written policy in milliseconds (Musubi's PolicyLM-1.7B, which the Workbench's classifier eval can now run), Xbox marking some long-time accounts as adults from their account activity, a Brazilian interim order for Discord to add age verification and parental supervision, and KOSA now needing a recorded Senate vote.
What I'm reading: Ofcom and Instagram Instants, Ofcom's data demands in court, and Roblox in Kansas
Ofcom is investigating whether Meta risk-assessed Instagram Instants before launch, and Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom's demands for moderation data in court. Kansas settled with Roblox for more than $10 million plus age checks and age-grouped chat, and OpenAI's own tests show its new EU text watermark weakens when 10% of the words are swapped.
Since 2024, the job is proving it works
Since 2024 the question has moved from whether you have a policy to whether you can show it works: UK risk assessments that must be redone before significant changes, age assurance as the foundation, 48-hour removal of intimate images under the US TAKE IT DOWN Act, and free open-source tooling. Those duties land on different teams, so the leadership team should name one owner for the whole picture.
Saturday reading: child safety gaps in games, Ofcom in court and California's new laws
Australia's eSafety found Fortnite and Minecraft still mostly rely on self-declared age. Age assurance is the foundation, because every other safeguard assumes you know who's a kid.
The era of voluntary child safety is ending
India's push for age checks, Florida's case against OpenAI, Copilot data labeling, TikTok's Alabama settlement and Meta's New Mexico verdict. The question has moved from "do you have a policy?" to "can you prove it works?"