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...
Jeremy Gilliam 22, was caught after playing a stolen game console online . Allowing cops in Pelham where the device was stolen to track him to his grandmothers house through the IP address. A kid whose Xbox was stolen saw someone playing with his user name online and told his parents who informed the police. On the day of the burglary when the kid who had logged in with another Xbox he noticed that he was already logged in. When the cops tracked him down they found Xboxes, playstations, GPS units and Laptops. A total of 53 items including stolen credit cards. Gilliam was already under investigation for 13 robberies Pilham detective John Hayes Said. Hayes further said that he believed that the stuff found was from about 200 car break-ins and multiple home burglaries. An original post by Sociolatte