Trending: The New Cracks in Social Media's Armor
Social media companies have a bad week--especially Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. Last Wednesday, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and YouTube liable for harming a young user with features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. The verdict followed a ruling by a New Mexico jury in another case brought by the state attorney general there, which found Meta liable for violating state law by failing to safeguard users of its apps from child predators. A wave of innovative new cases are taking on Big Tech by focusing on product design, not the First Amendment, noted the Columbia Journalism Review recently.
Weekend Update: The Wrong Bienniale
When I noticed an event called The Wrong Biennale, my first thought was, “Well, it’s about time.” Then I noticed that an artist I know is taking part. So I emailed Klay-James Enos, who was on his way to the airport at the time. He sent the following information about the digital pavilion where his work can be seen, one of seemingly hundreds of pavilions across the globe that are hosting local exhibitions that can be seen anywhere, anytime until the Biennale ends on March 31st...

