Meta just agreed to pay $18 billion to settle claims that it knowingly harmed children on Instagram and Facebook. The number is staggering, but the detail that stuck with us was smaller: a former Meta researcher testified that when his team pushed to turn a teen safety feature on by default, his manager told…
Modern social media is a world-spanning megaphone rather than town square, let alone a gathering of family and friends. It is also a data sink that wants to funnel your personal details and experience into some VC- or shareholder-controlled data plane, where each platform scrapes it and tries to get you and your friends…