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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| Image Credit: Salman Rushdie Twitter Account |
It is really true the author who writes long novels that are famously hard to finish has join the micro-blogging platform Twitter. Reading his tweets are quiet interesting and yo see that the man is a brain and a thinker. Perhaps you might think that a person who writes so well will not be able to be as entertaining and cleaver given the fact that he has only 140 characters to say per Tweet. You could be right but 140 characters gives a person the chance to bring out their poetic side. And a good writer can say it all in a few works. We hope as well as others that the brainy prose starts to flow. Yes Mr. Rushdie we are all used to the banal tweets that so often flood out timeline. Perhaps now we get to fly the skies of brainy prose and amazingly poetic tweets. 'Today we move on from ontological questions. As Popeye the Sailor Man said, I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.'
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