🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Social Media Social media is becoming both guardian and gatekeeper. Meta announced that parents using Instagram supervision tools can now be alerted when a teen discusses suicide or self harm with Meta AI. That could create an early warning signal during a crisis. It also raises difficult questions about privacy, accuracy, surveillance, and responsibility. When does protection become monitoring? Who is accountable when an AI system misses danger? At the same time, Britain’s Ofcom opened a formal investigation into TikTok over concerns that its age detection systems may fail to identify and protect children. The question is no longer whether platforms publish safety policies. It is whether the systems actually work. Then TikTok announced a global NBA and WNBA partnership built around creators, highlights, advertising, and pathways to live games. That completes the picture. The platform is becoming more than a feed. It is becoming a broadcaster. A dis...