Courts
Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico child exploitation case in ‘clear message to Big Tech’A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading customers and endangering children, marking a landmark ruling against one of the world’s most powerful technology companies. The jury ordered Meta… Read More
Culture
Meta blocks chatbots from discussing abortion with childrenSocial media firm Meta has barred its artificial intelligence chatbot from discussing abortion with minors, according to internal company documents made public in a recent report. The… Read More
Culture
Big Tech’s killer apps: Grieving parents call out social media deaths(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Grieving parents and advocates gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning for a vigil honoring their children, whom they say… Read More
Courts
Meta faces first of many lawsuits over allegedly intentional addictive design, harm to kidsSocial media companies bear responsibility for willful negligence in growing addictive platforms that directly harm children, a lawsuit argues, in a case facing jury selection Tuesday in Los Angeles. “It is the first case where a jury will hear the evidence that the social… Read More
Courts
Obama judge opens door for Big Tech to get even bigger(Daily Caller News Foundation) – An Obama-appointed federal judge held Tuesday that Meta is not an illegal monopoly. District Court Judge James Boasberg concluded that Meta’s purchases of Instagram and… Read More
Culture
Whistleblowers claim Meta suppressed child safety research(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta allegedly suppressed internal research that revealed disturbing dangers to children using its virtual reality (VR) headsets and platforms, according… Read More
World
‘Strong and clear message’: European bureaucrats slap American tech giants with massive fines(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The European Commission fined Meta and Apple combined roughly $800 million in total Wednesday and ordered sweeping changes to their business practices under the bloc’s… Read More
Culture
Facebook worked ‘hand in glove’ with China, ex-executive tells Senate panel(The Daily Signal) – Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive, testified on Wednesday on explosive allegations about the social media company’s relationship with China. In her prepared opening statement for a… Read More
Culture
Meta employees put their own tampons in men’s bathroomMeta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, eliminated tampons from its men’s bathrooms, but liberal employees have pushed back. To protest a Meta policy last month that took… Read More
Culture
Meta/Facebook removes tampons from men’s bathroomsMark Zuckerberg is making some changes at Meta. The billionaire businessman ordered the removal of menstrual products, such as tampons and pads, from the men’s bathrooms at the company’s offices… Read More
Culture
Meta (Facebook) ends DEI, in alignment with elections, legal decisionsMeta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced it is eliminating its management team focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and will stop using DEI as a… Read More
Culture
Study: Meta failing to moderate Instagram, circulating self-harm content to teensA new study has found self-harm content on Instagram to be thriving due to parent company Meta’s “extremely inadequate” moderation efforts. The report conducted by… Read More
Courts
‘You need to make your products safe for kids,’ Tennessee AG demands of social media giants(The Daily Signal) – Instagram’s parent company, Meta, knew the harm the platform was inflicting on minors and did nothing to mitigate it, according to a lawsuit filed against the … Read More
Josh Hawley
Pedophiles prey on minors by the day on social media, while feds target employees for ‘misgendering’ each other, Hawley warnsMeta’s social media platform is infested with pedophile rings and dripping with sexual advances toward minor girls, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley warns parents after hearing from a company… Read More
Courts
‘We’ve got to protect kids’: Missouri AG joins 32 others in suit against social media giant for being addictive and harmful for childrenMissouri has joined 32 other states in suing Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging it has knowingly harmed the mental health of minors by making its social media… Read More
Big Tech
Florida AG calls on Zuckerberg to respond to ‘stunning’ number of Florida human trafficking cases on Meta platforms(The Center Square) – Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Monday called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking to account for how… Read More
Big Tech, Opinion
COLUMN: Missouri senator, attorney general nearly alone in standing against government censorship on Facebook, Instagram, other social mediaJosh Hawley gives his U.S. Senate colleagues far too much credit when he excuses them for supposedly not knowing the extent of the Biden administration’s conspiracy to silence… Read More
Big Tech
Paxton investigating Zuckerberg-funded nonprofit for alleged partisan electioneering efforts in 2020(The Center Square) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a Civil Investigative Demand to the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL) as part of an investigation his office… Read More
Biden administration
Judge grants request by Missouri and Louisiana to depose top Biden officials for ‘colluding to suppress freedom of speech’JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A federal judge has granted Missouri and Louisiana’s request to depose top-ranking Biden administration officials for “colluding to suppress freedom of speech.”… Read More
Courts
Judge orders discovery phase in social media collusion lawsuit against Biden administration(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden, members of his administration and select social media companies must turn over documents and answer questions within the next 30 days during a discovery… Read More
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