🐢 Juries hold Meta and YouTube liable for harm + 9 more stories

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[6.3] Juries hold Meta and YouTube liable for harming children — apnews.com (+272)

Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico have found Meta and YouTube liable for harming children, signaling a pivotal shift in holding social media giants accountable for their product designs.

The verdicts focused on addictive platform features and Meta’s alleged concealment of child exploitation risks. By targeting deliberate design choices, these lawsuits successfully bypassed Section 230 legal protections that historically shielded tech companies from liability regarding third-party content and platform-related harms.

Meta and Google plan to appeal the verdicts. These bellwether trials may lead to broader settlements, similar to historic tobacco litigation, as public concern regarding social media’s developmental impact grows.

[6.3] Iran starts to formalize its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz with a ‘toll booth’ regime — apnews.com (+1234)

Iran is cementing control over the Strait of Hormuz using a mandatory vetting and toll regime, causing global oil prices to surge as shipping traffic drops by 90 percent.

Ships must now enter Iranian waters for vetting by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, with some paying fees in yuan.

While overall traffic has plummeted, vessels linked to Iran and its top customer, China, still frequently transit the vital energy artery.

Highly covered news with significance over 5.5

[6.0] OpenAI closes AI video app Sora — abc.net.au (+68)

[6.0] Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia — theguardian.com (+10)

[5.9] UN General Assembly declares slavery the gravest crime against humanity — www1.folha.uol.com.br (Portuguese) (+43)

[5.8] Arm enters chip market with AI CPU for data centers — pcworld.com (+17)

[5.7] South American malaria mosquitoes evolve insecticide resistance — hsph.harvard.edu (+3)

[6.2] Astronomers observe two giant gas planets forming around a young star — euronews.com (+13)

[5.7] Ukraine and Saudi Arabia sign defense cooperation agreement — euronews.com (+33)

[5.6] IOC requires genetic testing for women's Olympic events — npr.org (+81)

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