European regulators are threatening Meta with fines over features like infinite scroll that they say engineer compulsive use. The more important question is why the country where these platforms were built has spent twenty years doing nothing about it.
When the U.S. embassy in London formally objected to Britain's proposed under-16 social media ban, it was not acting as a neutral diplomatic observer. It was protecting the revenue models of American tech companies — using diplomatic infrastructure to do what lobbyists do.
A new wave of lawsuits targets tech platforms for addictive design features rather than harmful content — a legal strategy that bypasses Section 230 and could finally hold companies accountable for engineering products that harm children.
The White House is using SpongeBob memes and AI-generated videos to sell military strikes on Iran — a propaganda strategy that replaces accountability with entertainment.