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A jury ruled Tuesday that knowingly harmed children’s & concealed what it knew about sexual on its platforms.

The landmark decision comes after a nearly 7-week trial, & as jurors in a federal court in California have been sequestered in deliberations for more than a week about whether Meta & should be liable in a similar case.


https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-new-mexico-trial-28eabd8ec5f58c1d1ecddc21bb107de7

found liable to shareholders in lawsuit over $44 billion takeover

A federal found liable on Friday for claims he defrauded Twitter shareholders by ‌trying to drive down the company's price so he could renegotiate or back out of a $44 billion takeover in 2022.


https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musk-found-liable-twitter-shareholders-fraud-lawsuit-over-44-billion-takeover-2026-03-20/

It's finally here! The new Newsmast Foundation website 🎉

Our new website focuses on our Apps for Change programme which is bringing real values-aligned organisations and groups to the Social Web.

It's a big change from our original website with an increased focus on actions and solutions to protect information sharing ecosystems on social media.

Check it out 👇

https://newsmastfoundation.org/

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepping back, former WordPress parent chief Toni Schneider named interim boss

"The announcement names Toni Schneider, former CEO of Automattic and a partner at True Ventures, as the interim CEO. Automattic is the parent company of WordPress.

Graber wrote in the announcement that both Automattic and True Ventures are investors in Bluesky."

New Bluesky CEO 👀

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-toni-schneider.html

The European Commission has registered a new Citizen Initiative, calling for a European social media platform.
In detail: The initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legislative act, “a public social media platform at the European level”. That "would form an alternative to the current platforms and work as a service for the society, be funded by the society and be under its oversight”.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_522

Your vibe attracts your tribe. If you share the kind of content you want to see on this network, people will find you from it. If you follow back, soon you'll have a feed full of memes. That was always how worked, you just got lazy cuz the algorithm fed you w/o effort

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