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Through the partnership, Synopsys “will further accelerate and optimize its broad portfolio of compute-intensive applications spanning chip design, physical verification, molecular simulations, electromagnetic analysis optical simulation and more,” according to a press release.

Ms Newland said that, rather than a blanket ban, what was needed was better education about online harms, enhanced safety measures - such as age verification - and resources about how to use social media appropriately.

“I didn’t know that it was anything that would bypass any sort of verification,” said Alter, 43 years old, who splits his time between New York state and Canada.

Lawmakers in both parties have also moved to protect minors from social media’s harms, including by restricting addictive algorithms and requiring age verification.

"The blue ticks on these accounts tell us one thing we already knew: X's pay-for-play badging is just a revenue generator and not a serious verification effort."