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Meta has announced changes to its content policies, allowing users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" or "abnormal" without violating platform rules. This move has been criticized by medical experts.

Legal challenges will decide the fate of the state's new ban on social media for kids under 14. Plus, more on how Broward County's cellphone ban during the school day is going.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with officials about Florida's new social media law that bans children 14 and under from accessing some platforms. And we have a conversation about media literacy and fact checking.

They include children's access to social media and lawsuits filed by college students who say they should receive refunds for money they paid while campuses were shut down due to COVID-19.

The law restricts some minors from owning social media accounts. The state won’t legally enforce it until February as the law is currently being challenged in court by two separate lawsuits.

The Oxford University Press has chosen its word of the year, one word that's been popularized on social media.

Among them is one that would restrict access to social media for children, but a federal lawsuit means it will not be immediately enforced.

WFSU News spoke with a mental health expert about the pros and cons of social media and what life could look like without the apps.

The state’s new law takes effect at the beginning of the year and critics are already calling the law unconstitutional.

The training will provide teens and parents with the tools they need to build safer digital boundaries online.

In a motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, lawyers with Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office argued the industry groups’ lawsuit “is still riddled with holes.”

The Life in Media Survey will collect data from thousands of preteens over the next quarter century, measuring how using digital media changes attitude, behavior and health throughout their lives.