Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, considered altering how the company studies social issues after internal research on Instagram's impact on teen girls' mental health was made public, according to The Verge. This news emerged as Senate Democrats introduced a bill to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial recognition technology, as reported by Ars Technica. Simultaneously, the face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, used by US immigration agents, was revealed to be unreliable, according to Wired.
Zuckerberg's concerns, as reported by The Verge, arose after The Wall Street Journal published a story about Meta's findings on Instagram's impact on teen girls. The CEO reportedly wondered if Meta should change its approach to such studies. This comes as the tech industry is undergoing shifts, with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI releasing products that allow users to manage teams of AI agents instead of chatting with a single AI assistant, according to Ars Technica.
The proposed "ICE Out of Our Faces Act," introduced by Senate Democrats, would prohibit ICE and CBP from using facial recognition technology and require the deletion of past data collected from such systems, Ars Technica reported. The bill extends beyond facial recognition to cover other biometric surveillance technologies. This legislation follows revelations from Wired that the Mobile Fortify app, used by immigration agents, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets. The Department of Homeland Security launched Mobile Fortify in the spring of 2025 to determine or verify the identities of individuals stopped or detained by DHS officers, according to records reviewed by Wired. The rollout was linked to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
In other tech news, the search engine Bing blocked approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities, a platform that allows users to design free websites, according to Ars Technica. This action has made it difficult to find a corner of the internet that keeps the spirit of the 1990s alive.
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