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Alabama U.S. Senator Katie Britt is working on federal legislation to limit the access social media content creators get to the nation’s kids. It would prevent anyone under the age of thirteen from using social media. The bill would stop high tech companies from targeting youngsters under seventeen. This builds on legislation passed in Montgomery last year that limits cell phone use by students in school. In the nation of Denmark, there’s a similar effort underway. But, it goes beyond the nuts and bolts of social media to address how kids behave in general.

An Alabama man has been arrested for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said. Eric Council Jr. is accused of helping to break into the SEC’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter.

There's been another arrest in the investigation into threatening messages made against University of Alabama students.Daniel Evan Simmons, a 19-year-old…