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Oct 2023
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Kidfluencers: big money in a legal grey ...

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Child social media influencers--or 'kidfluencers'--can make big money online. But they do so in a legal grey area, where there are few or no rules about who get to keep the money. In addition, there are often no protections on how many hours child influencers work and whether they have any rights to privacy.

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