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...
Facebook has now started sending Facebook page updates for people who have created their own Facebook pages. Of course your page needs to have some traction before you get these updates. It is also a good way for Page creators to get the updates on how well or not so well their page is doing and your encouraged to work on it some more. This new feature of Facebook has been launched more aggressively ever since their became the most visited site in the US. Yes, for a whole week Facebook had beaten even Google to become the No1 most visited site. The whole of last week Facebook held the number one spot. Facebook now seems to want to set the importance of their service in terms of driving traffic to your page and even your websites. It become more and more important to make sure your websites are optimized for Facebook as their importance in generating traffic grows. People who own pages on Facebook can now get weekly updates of their pages on Facebook and think of ways to make it better ...