Lots of monopoly news, as usual. Paramount had another setback in its merger plans, there was some comical villainy involving Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht, and the state of New Jersey just filed a ground-breaking monopoly lawsuit against Amazon over driver wages. Before getting to the full round-up, I want to discuss some events this week in...Read More
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan majority of Americans support more government rules for how social media companies conduct business, including requiring age-verification tools to keep younger children off social media, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll, which was conducted over the six days ending Aug 3, comes as companies like Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube...Read More
Attorney General Anthony Sylvestre has confirmed that certain provisions of the cyberbullying legislation may be unconstitutional. According to the Prime Minister, this declaration has urged the government to review and return to the House of Representatives with amendments. The Pm’s...Read More
While most new Illinois laws typically go into effect at the beginning of the year, there are some new bills that actually take effect at mid-year. Among those laws will be a change to how senior citizens take driving tests, the definition of cyber-bullying used by Illinois schools, and a law making a COVID-era change...Read More
Causal DAG construction The generalized form (without causal implications) of the PGCM is the BN, a graphical model representing the joint probability distribution of random variables. A BN comprises a DAG and conditional probability tables (CPT)36,37. Given a DAG, namely G, and a joint probability distribution P over a set of discrete variables \(X=\left\{ X_1,...Read More
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) will be in focus on Friday after a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay $567 million to fund youth mental health treatment and prevention programs, adding to an earlier $375 million civil penalty, according to a Thursday court ruling. The latest order brings Meta’s...Read More
The Australian Government has launched a national bullying awareness campaign backed by a $10 million investment, including $5 million for a targeted advertising blitz, Minister for Education Jason Clare MP announced on 9 August 2026. The campaign, titled Let’s Stop Bullying, is the first federally funded advertising push specifically aimed at helping school communities spot...Read More
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The American Red Cross of Southern Nevada is calling on families and drivers to review safety practices as more than 280,000 Clark County students return to school Monday. Walking and biking to school The Red Cross said the trip to and from school is one of the first safety lessons of...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) — Teenagers are more inclined than their elders to get news from nontraditional sources such as social media and influencers, heralding a generational shift in how people seek out information. A national study by the Media Insight Project finds 36% of U.S. adults say they get news from social media at least...Read More
According to a 2023 report from NBC News, experts deem it “impossible” to separate the rise of adolescent eating disorders from social media. “From 2018 to 2022, healthcare visits related to eating disorders more than doubled among people under age 17. With more than 80 percent of teenagers using social media platforms, experts say underlying...Read More
