The Morning Risk Report: Pivotal Child Safety Trial That Could Change Instagram Starts in California

Good morning. Opening arguments in a child safety trial against Meta Platforms began Tuesday in what could be the most consequential social media harm case yet.

Walt Disney’s ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an effort to quash speech the Trump administration finds objectionable.

In a suit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, ABC said, “Again and again, the Administration has attacked ABC’s speech—the stories its journalists report and the viewpoints its network programs air. Over time, those attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its speech.”

Some business groups and investors told the U.S. employment regulator its bid to cut race and gender reporting could veil what can be essential insight into workforces, Risk Journal reports (free link).

The remarks followed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s bid in July to rescind its requirement for companies to file annual reports detailing breakdowns of employees’ race and sex.

The number of acres of national-forest land the U.S. Forest Service is aiming to open to logging and road construction, a reversal of a policy that protected wildlife habitats for decades.

A series of severe heatwaves and prolonged droughts have turned many European riverbeds into barren sandscapes this summer.

Major arteries for trade and agriculture across the continent—including the Rhine, Danube and Po—are now at record low levels, disrupting freight transportation, forcing nuclear power plants to shut reactors and eroding agricultural productivity.

President Trump said he would pause a 50% tariff on certain goods from Canada for three days while the two countries seek to finalize an agreement.

The new 50% tariff was set to cover $20 billion worth of Canadian goods—about 5% of Canada’s annual exports to the U. S.—ranging from hockey sticks and electronics to plastics and building materials.

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