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Online shopping platform Skroutz has obtained a temporary injunction in an Athens court against Meta Platforms over the misuse of its trademark and logo in bogus advertisements on its Facebook and Instagram sites.

Greek online shopping platform Skroutz has obtained a temporary injunction in an Athens court against Meta Platforms over the misuse of its trademark and logo in bogus advertisements on its Facebook and Instagram sites.

The Greek government is now moving towards prohibiting children under the age of 15 from accessing social media.

Thousands of users of Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, are experiencing major disruptions worldwide.

Messaging apps have frozen, with pages either failing to load or users unable to post updates.

Specifically, more than 42,000 Instagram users report issues with viewing posts.

In a milestone decision, Australia's Senate on Thursday passed laws to ban children and teenagers from using social media, in the first such decision by any government across the globe.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced today that he plans to ban access to social media for children under the age of 16, at a time of growing international criticism that internet giants are not adequately protecting their vulnerable users.

Australia's prime minister on Nov. 7 vowed to ban children under 16 from social media, saying the pervasive influence of platforms like Facebook and TikTok was "doing real harm to our kids."

The tech giants would be held responsible for enforcing the age limit and face hefty fines if regulators notice young users slipping through the cracks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

Bilyana Petrova, a 31-year-old woman from Sofia who had been missing, has been found dead.

Her body was discovered near the Central Hall building in the capital, not far from where she was last seen the previous day.

Thousands of Facebook users in Greece and abroad have been reporting connection problems over the past hour.

The outage monitoring app downdetector said hundreds of users of Facebook and other Meta platforms, such as Instagram and Messenger, reported problems with use. Real-time monitoring shows the problems spiked and then abated.

An independent body, supported by Meta Platforms' Oversight Board Trust, has a certification from the media regulator in Ireland to resolve appeals against policy violation decisions of social media companies in the European Union.