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Cited IPO benchmark: entered public markets in 2012 at roughly $104 billion with hundreds of millions of users and a scalable advertising business.
A former engineering director testified that Instagram ran a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to under-13 users and graded staff on engagement. Twenty-five more state trials follow.
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Arturo Bejar's sworn testimony in Oakland turns "we didn't know" into a documentary question, and puts every executive's internal warning record on the exhibit list.
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Arturo Bejar testified in Oakland that Meta's internal culture made wellbeing features practically impossible to ship. That turns a four-state consumer case into an argument about how product orgs run.
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States want roughly $200 billion and product changes; Meta says the ask reaches $1.4 trillion. The OpenAI and Ellison stories are real but, as reported, carry no magnitude.
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Two University of Kansas surveys move a Western research staple to India. Media literacy was the strongest predictor of institutional trust, and it did not predict civic engagement at all.
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iPullRank's Q3 2026 panel puts ChatGPT sixth among Google destinations by clicks but first by paid share. An AI assistant is now visible in the auctions marketers already pay to win.
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Opening arguments in the 29-state child-privacy case against Meta begin Tuesday in California, with a penalty range the two sides describe seven times apart.
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A California superior court let Unruh Act claims proceed against Google over ads some users were not served. Google appealed and the Copia Institute filed an amicus submission; the defendant is the platform.
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Malwarebytes reports seven in ten 18-to-22-year-olds met an AI-related scam last year, against half of the general population. The gap is widest on synthetic media.
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Serious money is modeling a $2 trillion IPO for a five-year-old model vendor. That is a vendor-concentration problem before it is a bubble question.
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