Tag: Meta
The product is the problem: Why Meta’s $17 billion settlement matters...
The agreement could mark a turning point for public policies on social media precisely because it addresses the architecture of the platforms themselves.
Cut the Pentagon, save the planet: The $1.5 trillion climate solution...
The Pentagon budget is a clear target, with the potential to address rising environmental, economic, and public health crises globally.
Meta & Google found liable in landmark cases for knowingly causing...
Over the course of the trials, documents revealed that tech companies were well aware of the addictive properties of their social media products and exploited these properties to increase their profits.
EU investigates Meta for addictive effect social media has on children
The European Commission—the executive arm of the EU—opened “formal proceedings” against Meta last week to see if the company violated the Digital Services Act’s (DSA) protections for minors.
States ask appeals court to reinstate 2020 antitrust lawsuit against Meta...
The lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleged that "Meta used its monopoly power to buy potential competitors and curtail competitive behavior."
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25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
AFL-CIO report warns digital shelf labels could cost retail workers billions in wages
Maryland and New Jersey have already moved to restrict the technology, betting its pricing infrastructure poses as much risk to shoppers as to store staff.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.