In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
Jameg Blake, 22, is accused of shooting and killing Kwame Dancy after the two childhood friends got into a tiff on Twitter. Now the tweets sent by the two men may prove to be key evidence in the case that follows.
Dancy, who was studying to be a nurse, was killed by a shotgun blast to the neck Dec. 1 across from Lenox Terrace in Harlem, where he grew up with his father.
Blake - who lived on the same floor as Dancy, one floor below Paterson in the luxury high-rise on W. 132nd St. - was arrested two days later.
Possibly attempting to establish a cover, Blake also showed up at the hospital after the shooting and hugged Dancy's bereaved father. Besides their Twitter-beef, the two had fought previously, and publicly, over a woman. The victim's mother was shocked to learn that the long-time pal fired the shot that killed her son. "They were good friends, that's the sad part about it," she said. "Obviously, I didn't know him like I thought I did. I just want to ask him. 'Why? How could you?'
Dancy, who was studying to be a nurse, was killed by a shotgun blast to the neck Dec. 1 across from Lenox Terrace in Harlem, where he grew up with his father.
Blake - who lived on the same floor as Dancy, one floor below Paterson in the luxury high-rise on W. 132nd St. - was arrested two days later.
Possibly attempting to establish a cover, Blake also showed up at the hospital after the shooting and hugged Dancy's bereaved father. Besides their Twitter-beef, the two had fought previously, and publicly, over a woman. The victim's mother was shocked to learn that the long-time pal fired the shot that killed her son. "They were good friends, that's the sad part about it," she said. "Obviously, I didn't know him like I thought I did. I just want to ask him. 'Why? How could you?'
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