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The Technology That Targeted America in 2016 Never Went Away, It Just Got Smarter… Russia Did Not Need to Hack America’s Voting Machines. It Learned How to Attack the Information Environment Around Voters, and Today Artificial Intelligence Is Making the Same Basic Playbook Faster, Cheaper and Harder to Detect Nearly a decade after the 2016

Meta’s $17.1 Billion Reckoning: States Say Zuckerberg Built Instagram to Hook America’s Children For years, parents, lawmakers, whistleblowers and even some of Meta’s own employees have warned that Instagram and Facebook were not simply neutral social networks being used excessively by teenagers. The far more serious allegation was that Meta Platforms deliberately engineered features to

Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million in New Mexico Child Exploitation and User Safety Trial A New Mexico jury has delivered a major legal setback to Meta, finding the social media giant violated state consumer protection law by misleading the public about the safety of its platforms and failing to adequately prevent child sexual

Jury Finds Meta and YouTube Liable in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial as Second Case Intensifies Legal Pressure A California jury has delivered a potentially historic verdict against two of the world’s most powerful technology companies, finding Meta and YouTube liable for harm caused by the alleged addictive design of their platforms in a closely

Miami Man Arrested After Social Media Dating App Meeting Turns Violent, Police Say A Miami man is facing a slew of charges after police say he assaulted and falsely imprisoned a woman who traveled from Orlando to meet him through the Meta dating app on Facebook. According to Miami police, 34-year-old Saady Mijail Castellanos Triminio

Courtroom Meltdown Deepens: Zuckerberg’s Testimony, Mounting Evidence, and a Trial That Could Reshape Meta What happened in that Los Angeles courtroom was not an isolated embarrassment. It was part of a pattern. When Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a landmark youth addiction and platform harm trial, the expectation inside Meta’s legal war room was

Update: Zuckerberg Takes the Stand And the Optics Collapse for Meta Los Angeles addiction/mental-health bellwether (K.G.M. case) Mark Zuckerberg finally faced a jury. After years of congressional hearings, apology tours, and carefully managed public appearances, the Meta Platforms CEO testified in a Los Angeles courtroom in a landmark trial examining whether social media platforms were

Meta on Trial in New Mexico: Prosecutors Say Company Knew Predators Were Targeting Kids And Failed to Act A courtroom in Santa Fe is now ground zero in what could become one of the most consequential tech accountability trials in the country. The State of New Mexico has accused Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook,

How Mark Zuckerberg’s Attempt to Take Down TikTok May Have Made It an Even Stronger Competitor to Meta In recent years, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) has found itself in a heated battle for digital supremacy with TikTok, the short-video app that has rapidly gained market share and outpaced Instagram in popularity among younger

Executive Summary Meta Platforms and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are embroiled in multiple high-stakes controversies that could reshape the technology landscape. In Washington, D.C., a landmark antitrust trial brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is challenging Meta’s historic acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, with Zuckerberg himself testifying in mid-April and facing potential structural remedies

Zuckerberg Accused of Offering U.S. User Data to China in Exchange for Market Access, Former Facebook Exec Testifies In an explosive testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams claimed that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to trade American user data to the