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...
11 Top Celebs to Follow - trending now on the top of Twitter worldwide trends. You might be wondering how this trend came to be. The answer is very simple, this is a repeat of what happened yesterday . Mashable the popular social media blog had a post out '10 Facebook tips for power users', this got a lot of Tweets on Twitter but users just changed it to what they think are the top 10 Facebook tips to keep in kind. Today there is another post out by Amy-Mae Elliott from Mashable and the title of the article is 11 Top Celebs to Follow on Viddy. This title has been taken by users on Twitter and they have converted it to their own version. The Twitter version is '11 top Celebs to Follow' and users are having fun with the title. Including offering up some of their favouriute Twitter celebrities that they think should be followed on Twitter. This being Twitter you can only expect that many of the users are saying that the celebs to be followed are Justin Bieber and Lady Ga...