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Whether platforms face strict liability for user-generated outputs, and proposed remedies such as consent and distribution limits plus good-faith safe harbors.
Senior DOJ officials have halted the grand jury probe of Meta over drug sales on its platforms, two people familiar told Bloomberg Law. Officials are weighing a civil fine or non-prosecution agreement, one said, and DOJ would not discuss the case.
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Meta was held liable for $375 million in New Mexico civil penalties and 70% of the responsibility for a $6 million Los Angeles award, both in March 2026. Meta is appealing or plans to appeal both, and Clyde & Co says neither first-instance verdict settles the standard for platform design.
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Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in finance. Georgieva said fraud could drive people out of the formal system, and Bailey pressed social media firms to share responsibility.
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Apple is fighting at the Fourth Circuit to move West Virginia's suit over its CSAM filtering into federal court under 28 U.S.C. Section 1442(a)(1). The court that hears it will be the first to rule on whether a state can use liability to dictate how a platform searches its users' content.
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The Justice Department's 18 August statement of interest argues Minnesota's HF 1606 reaches further than federal law. Teams betting on a stable state patchwork now have a federal counterparty.
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The cash amortises over a decade. The enforceable part is a short list of numbers with an independent auditor attached, agreed by 29 attorneys general without any finding of liability.
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Uber's rider terms sent this claim to private arbitration, where a retired judge found the company vicariously liable for a driver who stopped in a freeway gore point and left two intoxicated passengers there.
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Judge Richard Stone found Uber responsible for a driver who ordered two riders out of the car in August 2023. The plaintiffs' firm says Uber told other customers it was reviewing that driver's account and never did.
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The vice-president dismissed global AI safety rules while the frontier labs spent the week arguing in public about how fast to move. For the companies, that leaves AI risk as a private liability.
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California's new 13-bill minors package allows damages of up to $1 million for each child a large social platform is found to have harmed. Matching Meta's $18 billion settlement would take 18,000 of them.
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David Chiu's four-page letter asks Meta how the ads got past moderation, how it handles repeat advertisers and what it sent to NCMEC. That turns a takedown story into a question about what Meta owed once it knew.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted the ads on Facebook and Instagram this year, several of them placed by Meta's own top-tier ad partners in China, and Meta pulled about 150 within hours of seeing the list.
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A second refused injunction leaves Minnesota's ban enforceable while the case proceeds, so the near-term cost lands on whoever owns the filter thresholds rather than on the constitutional argument xAI wants decided.
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