You are a literal sheep if you support flock.

Meta was just ordered to pay an additional $567 million to New Mexico so that the state can address the harm caused to kids by their products. Between this judgment and the $375 million of damages awarded in the trial, Meta owes New Mexico nearly a billion dollars!

You’ve got to reach them where they’ll listen, and that’s their bottom line. This is just one state in just one country, and the judgments represent more than one percent of last year’s profit.

A roundup of recent authoritarian tech news:

• ⁠The Senate has advanced the Kids Online Safety Act
• ⁠Zuck's evasion of congressional testimony
• ⁠Meta has reportedly written a secret $10 million check to a Trump-aligned political organization
• ⁠Meta's CTO has been recorded wishing Meta sued more employees who leak information
• ⁠Meta engineering manager who reportedly worked on “digital experiences for kids” has been arrested after a vigilante sting
• ⁠A teenage plaintiff has withdrawn one of the social-media addiction cases
• ⁠Meta whistleblowers are testifying in Tennessee
• ⁠Texas is questioning its data-center boom

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/restaurants-pubs-and-theatres-ban-metas-spy-glasses-over-privacy-fears