Evan Spiegel, chief executive of Snap Inc (the parent company of photo-messaging app Snapchat), has told the BBC his company would be "willing to implement" daily time limits for teenage users, calling the idea "an important step forward for the industry." His comments follow pressure from Meta — which agreed in August to a $12.7 billion settlement with US state attorneys general over allegations that its Instagram and Facebook platforms were deliberately designed to addict young users — for rival social media firms to adopt similar safeguards, including a default two-hour daily cap for teens. Spiegel stopped short of committing to a specific timeline, and neither Google (YouTube's parent) nor TikTok indicated they would follow Meta's lead, leaving the question of industrywide adoption unresolved.