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Meta’s Future Value and the Social Media Verdict
Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises abo...

Leon Radvinsky, 43, Dies; Built the Adult-Entertainment Giant OnlyFans
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century....

Consumer Fraud Losses Quintupled Since 2020, FTC Says
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received 3 million fraud reports from consumers in 2025, and those consumers reported $15.9 billion in losses, an official told a congressional committee Wednesday (...

Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI
Meta is laying off hundreds of employees across its company, according to reports from The New York Times, NBC Ne...

California Jury Finds Meta and YouTube Designed Platforms to Be Addictive
There could be more settlements of lawsuits alleging that social media companies design their platforms to be addictive following the success of such a lawsuit in a California court on Wednesday (Marc...

Jury finds Meta and YouTube built ‘addiction machines’ that harmed a child, awards $3 million in landmark trial
A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory dam...

Judge Rejects Government’s Weak Attempt To Memory-Hole DOGE Deposition Videos
Last week we covered how the government successfully convinced Judge Colleen McMahon to order the plaintiffs in the DOGE/National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lawsuit to “claw back” the vira...

Apple Brings Age Verification to iPhones in the UK
British iPhone users will reportedly have to verify their age to access many Apple services. That’s according to a report on Wednesday (March 25) from the Financial Times (FT), which says...

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress....

Meta and YouTube just found negligent in landmark social media addiction case — 'a significant blow to social networks'
Blockbuster social media addiction trial ends with YouTube and Meta declared negligent....