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Mark Zuckerberg faces intense questioning in social media addiction trial – CBS News Watch CBS News Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Wednesday to fight off allegations that Instagram was intentionally designed to be addictive, especially to kids. Jo Ling Kent was in the courtroom and has more on the landmark trial.
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Online seller eBay has agreed to pay $1.2bn (Β£890m) to purchase second-hand fashion marketplace Depop from Etsy, the companies have announced. The all-cash deal is expected to be completed by the middle of this year – five years after Etsy, an online marketplace, bought Depop for $1.6bn (Β£1.18bn). The acquisition comes as the popularity of…
UCLA has canceled an upcoming lecture featuring CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. Weiss was scheduled to give the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture on Feb. 27 about βThe Future of Journalism.β But according to the university, the program will not move forward as scheduled, after Weissβ team withdrew from the event. A source familiar with…
Number 10 will be nursing its whiplash this evening as Donald Trump once again throws a diplomatic hand grenade into the UK’s Chagos deal with Mauritius. Posting on Truth Social, Donald Trump implored Sir Keir Starmer to scrap the deal, saying: “DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA!” In his long post online, the US president…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ As progressives seek to place a new tax on billionaires on Californiaβs November ballot, a Republican congressman is moving in the opposite direction β proposing federal legislation that would block states from taxing the assets of former residents. Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), who faces a tough re-election challenge under Californiaβs redrawn congressional maps, says he…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questioning in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday about Instagram’s under-13 users and Meta’s efforts to boost engagement, as a trial examines whether the company knowingly offered an addictive and harmful product to children and teens. The landmark trial against Meta and YouTubeΒ kicked offΒ in late January. It centers on allegations…
Lorenzo Hernandez, who was the football coach at Garfield for 24 years until stepping down after the 2024 season, is coming out of retirement to become head coach at Whittier High. He met with his new players Wednesday afternoon. Hernandez helped elevate the Garfield program beyond the annual Garfield vs. Roosevelt rivalry game, with the…
Plans to increase the minimum wage for 18 to 20-year-olds to the same level as for other adults could be delayed, Sky News understands. In its 2024 election manifesto, Labour committed to “remove the discriminatory age bands, so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage, delivering a pay rise to hundreds of thousands…
After the fake video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting went viral, a surge of AI-generated content from Seedance 2.0 flooded the internet. Some fans were using the new AI video generator, backed by ByteDance, to refashion the finales for shows like βGame of Thronesβ and βStranger Things.β Others created battle scenes between iconic…
