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...
Did it have anything to do with his tweets while on furlough? Roger Avery who shared the award with "Quentin Tarantino" for best screenplay; movie "Pulp Fiction" was sentenced in September for Vehicular Manslaughter. Which driving drunk in his benz he hit a pedistrian who succumbed to his injuries and Rogers wife was also badly injured. In October tweets started appreaing on his twitter account. "(“The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement,” he wrote) and details of his furlough program " “I wouldn’t doubt that it had something to do with those tweets,” Captain Bonfiglio told The Star. But on Monday he told The Associated Press that Mr. Avary’s Twitter posts had not played a major role in Mr. Avary’s incarceration. So now he is back behind bars and no longer tweeting. This is Taken from the LA Times "On Thursday, after The Times published reports about the short messages, Avary was transferred to county jail. ...