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...
Amazon has launched a its own Social Gaming portal with a view to gain a piece of the Pie which for long has been on the table on Zynga . Zynga has been the maker and creator of hit Facebook games like Farmville and CityVille. Amazon has seen the potential in social gaming and its popularity that is on the rise and have decided that in addition to selling games they will now have their own gaming center and it is being called Amazon Game Studios. The first game that has been launched is being called 'Living Classics'. The game also has a Facebook fan page to go with it and you can now play the game on Facebook here . The game Living Classics is a moving objects game and you would need to solve moving object puzzles, explore illustrations of classic stories and reunite families of cartoon foxes. In the first puzzle users would need to Alice has a big problem. She has shrunk to the size of an insenct and to help solve the problem you would need to click on moving objects. It is...