Techdirt. – Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

Aug 262026
 

By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’s platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere between $12.7 billion and $18 billion, depending on which document you read (the consent judgment itself caps the total at $16,680,647,753.21; Meta’s press release rounds it up to “approximately $18 billion”). Also Meta will implement a bunch of changes to its platforms with the aim of improving child safety on those platforms. It will also “encourage” YouTube and TikTok to enable…

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Internet Archive Blogs – Book Scanning Goes Viral…Again

Aug 262026
 

Five years after Eliza Zhang’s book-scanning video reached millions of people, the Internet Archive’s page-by-page approach to digitization is capturing attention all over again. In February 2021, a video of Internet Archive book scanner Eliza Zhang turning the pages of a book went unexpectedly viral. It reached 7.7 million people in its first 48 hours and became one of our most widely seen social posts ever. Five years later, it happened again. As renewed attention to the way books are digitized brought new questions about our own scanning practices, people once again discovered Eliza, the Scribe, and the decidedly hands-on process behind the digital books in our collections:
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.org/post/3mtwbyzi3ek2f Mastodon: https://mastodon.archive.org/deck/@internetarchive/117158143212849382 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DceW6ZikT_g/?img_index=1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498467255626907648…

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