However, Kuhl ruled that platforms will have the opportunity to counter experts’ opinions at trial, while reminding social media companies that “ultimately, the critical question of causation is one that must be determined by the jury.” Only one expert’s testimony was excluded, Social Media Victims Law Center noted, a licensed clinical psychologist deemed unqualified. “Testimony ..
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For Meta, the renewed fight comes at a time when most tech companies are walking tightropes to avoid any possible retaliation from Trump, not just social platforms. After defeating the FTC last fall, Meta’s chief legal officer, Jennifer Newstead, didn’t dunk on the FTC but coolly celebrated the ruling for recognizing that “Meta faces fierce ..
Remember the early days of Facebook, around 2006, when posts appeared in (mostly) chronological order when you opened the platform? Well, things look a bit different 20 years later. Facebook began as a place to share updates and photos with friends and family, putting the ‘social’ in social media. Today, it has evolved into a ..
Other factors stemmed from social changes, the judge suggested, describing the fourth factor as a trend where Meta app users started feeling “increasingly bored by their friends’ posts.” “Longtime users’ friend lists” start fresh, but over time, they “become an often-outdated archive of people they once knew: a casual friend from college, a long-ago friend ..
One of the most common questions creators and brands ask: “Is my engagement rate good?” The answer depends on your follower count. A 5% engagement rate looks very different for a neighborhood café with 500 fans than for a news publisher with half a million. That’s why we analyzed 52 million Facebook posts across 213,000 ..
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson recently warned Meta and a dozen social media and technology companies that “censoring Americans to comply with a foreign power’s laws, demands, or expected demands” may violate US law. Ferguson’s letters said the EU’s Digital Services Act and other laws “incentivize tech companies to censor worldwide speech.” Meta told media outlets ..
As a marketer, you might have heard that Gen Z prefers TikTok, Instagram is trendier and so on. But Facebook is far from flailing. It’s the biggest social network in the world — by a large margin. Gen Z prefers TikTok, Instagram is trendier, and new platforms are emerging to capture attention. But the data ..
“While TBD Labs is still relatively new, we believe it has the greatest compute-per-researcher in the industry, and that will only increase,” Meta said. Wang and other former Scale staffers have struggled with some of the idiosyncratic ways of working at Meta, according to someone familiar with his thinking, for example having to adjust to ..
With its massive reach, flexible content formats, and built-in engagement, Facebook is still one of the most powerful marketing tools for creators and small businesses. “For brands targeting Millennials, Gen X, or niche communities, Facebook is where real conversations are still happening,” says Cashé Collocott, founder of Kidd Digital, a boutique social media agency, “You ..
After what was arguably Meta’s biggest purge of child predators from Facebook and Instagram earlier this summer, the company now faces backlash after its own chatbots appeared to be allowed to creep on kids. After reviewing an internal document that Meta verified as authentic, Reuters revealed that by design, Meta allowed its chatbots to engage ..
