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YouTube rolls out supervised children’s accounts to MENA and Turkiye amid mounting regulatory pressure

Alphabet-owned YouTube unveiled a package of parental controls, including three content tiers and a new Shorts feed timer
Goal is to protect young people “in, not from, the digital world,” but process requires shared effort, YouTube’s public health lead said during a briefing attended by Arab News

By GABRIELE MALVISI · 02 July 2026

TikTok announces new safety measures

By Arab News · 02 May 2024

Snapchat adds new parental-control tools, including option to restrict interaction with AI chatbot

By Arab News · 15 January 2024

TikTok rolls out new account enforcement system to address repeated policy violations

By Arab News · 03 February 2023

Twitter rolls out new feature to protect fact-checking tool participants

By Arab News · 23 November 2021

TikTok takes steps to make platform safer for teens

By Arab News · 19 November 2021

Amazon to proactively remove more content that violates rules from cloud service

By Reuters · 03 September 2021

Twitter launches “safety mode” to block accounts for harmful language

By Reuters · 01 September 2021

Instagram to require users to share their birthday amid youth safety push

By Reuters · 31 August 2021

Instagram launches new features for teen online safety

By Arab News · 29 July 2021

Google urging Arab web users to stay safe online

By TAREK ALI AHMAD · 08 February 2021

Facebook forges ahead with kids app despite expert criticism

By AP · 16 February 2018

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