Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered the courthouse in downtown Los Angeles in much the same way as all the lawyers, reporters and advocates who had come to watch him testify in the landmark trial, but with one notable difference: He was accompanied by an entourage who appeared to be wearing Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. To … Read more
A set of cases alleging that social media platforms are harming the safety and mental health of teenagers will be heard this year, pitting executives such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions about what they did or didn’t do to protect children. Unlike many previous legal challenges against social media companies, these cases … Read more
The Trump administration has just removed a landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planetary heating pollution since 2009. For nearly two decades, “endangerment findings” have empowered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than rolling back these rules individually, the Trump administration … Read more
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, suspending all flights to and from the airport for the next 10 days. No explanation was given for the closure, other than a vague reference to “special security reasons”. The closure was announced late on February 10th in a notice … Read more
Autodesk, a company known for its suite of 3D design software, is suing Google over claims it infringed on its “Flow” trademark, as it previously said. Reuters. The lawsuit, filed in a California court last week, alleges that the name of Google’s AI video generator, Flow, is likely to confuse customers with Autodesk’s own “Flow”-branded … Read more
At the heart of the ensuing social media liability case is a key question: Did Meta lie or mislead the public about the security of its platform, when it knew otherwise? The state of New Mexico opened its case Monday, arguing that public statements by Meta’s top executives regularly contradict its own internal discussions and … Read more
300 journalists lost their jobs The Washington Post. More than 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who bought the storied publication in 2013, has driven his reputation into the ground by using his sprawling empire to churn out content designed to please President Donald Trump: Amazon MGM Studios spent $40 million to … Read more
When Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, walked into the Senate Administration Building on Tuesday, he got a curveball. What began as a standard antitrust hearing related to the Warner Bros. merger quickly degenerated into a performative Republican attack on the streaming service’s spread of “woke” ideology. At the same time, an arguably far more … Read more
A day later The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster about Meta’s own dismal findings about teenage girls’ mental health on Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wondered if Meta should change the way it studies the potential harms of its platforms. “Recent events have made me wonder if we should change our approach to research and … Read more
After a federal judge ruled that Meta was not an illegal monopolist in a strike against the Federal Trade Commission, the agency issued what was in part a typical statement of disappointment. The next part of the statement was anything but: a political attack on the judge himself. “The table has always been stacked against … Read more