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...
Tom Hanks is now on Twitter Found on his profile's Bio: Bio I'm that actor in some of the movies you liked and some you didn't. Sometimes I'm in pretty good shape, other times I'm not. Hey, you gotta live, you know? His first post was Testing... testing... Is this thing on?? At the time of writing this he already has 103,662 followers. He joined on the 11th and has broken the 100,000 mark is less than three days. He also confirmed in a second tweet that he and Julia Roberts would be teeming up for the Movie Larry Crowne. Hey. My 2nd tweet! @NIKKIFINKE is right - http://bit.ly/4sx12Z. LARRY CROWNE w/ J Roberts and me, shooting 2010. More to come. An original post by Sociolatte