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Big Tech's Day of Reckoning: What the Meta and Google Verdicts Really Mean

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...
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How YouTube is giving back to Site and Blog owners


YouTube has found a way to reward site and blog owners who have added YouTube videos to their blogs or sites and by adding these videos have also added their commentaries and giving the videos some perspective. To reward all these content curators YouTube a Google company has launched what is know as 'As Seen On'. This is a section on YouTube that will redirect users to sites or blog that have YouTube videos embedded. This is a way for YouTube to give back to site and blog owners something for all the hard work and all the traffic sent to YouTube. when site and blog owners add YouTube videos to their posts it is a two way street, their posts gets a video which might help in many ways and in turn YouTube gets more views and more traffic sent to their the site via blogs and websites.


we do not know the algorithm YouTube uses to choose which sites list of videos get curated into a permanent link. It works like this. If you take this blog 'Sociolatte' our YouTube as seen on link is http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/sociolatte if you click on this link you will see all the YouTube videos that we have shared on this blog. You can use this same link to see the YouTube videos shared by all you favorite sites this way. Now if you are a blog or website owner and want to know how to get your site added, we are sorry but this is an internal thing and is done by YouTube. If you have shared a lot of videos and added relevant commentaries to them we are sure you site or blog has already been added.


To find this link on YouTube you would need to head over to www.youtube.com/news and scroll down to see the 'As seen on link' and find videos shared by your favorite sites.


This is an important step in content discovery as users don't really know how large YouTube really is and that it cowers just about everything on the net with Video. You think of anything and search YouTube and find a related video. The content of the video sharing site is as large as the internet itself and therefore by checking these links you will discover rich content and open your mind to the vastness of the whole thing. For blog and site owners this happens to be a good way to get a whole new audience discovering you site or blog. Each post is shared with a link back to your site, fantastic social way to discover and share content. This is another social feature and maybe further social features will be added to the "As seen on" program by Google. 


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