Meta Pays Up, Admits Nothing, Changes Everything.

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Mark Zuckerberg built an empire on the attention of children, and on Wednesday he agreed to pay $16.7 billion to make the lawsuits about it go away. That’s the number in the court filing. Meta will hand over the money in installments over ten years to settle claims from a coalition of states — California included — that Facebook and Instagram were built to hook kids and keep them scrolling, whatever it cost their mental health. Twenty-nine states brought the case in federal court. A trial had been underway. Now there won’t be one. Meta says it did nothing wrong.

The Democratic Party Has a Problem Named Hasan Piker.

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Hasan Piker just warned American Jews. A House Democrat says enough. Michigan Democrat Rep. Hillary Scholten called Hasan Piker “a hack who thrives on hate, shock and awe because he lacks substance” — and she’s not wrong about the shock and awe part. That’s his whole business model. Here’s what set her off. During an Aug. 20 stream, Piker put up a photo of Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss — a Jewish lawmaker running for Congress — and warned that if American Jews keep “putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel,” somebody’s eventually “gonna come

They’re Not Hiding It Anymore: The ‘Violent’ Plans of the DSA

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The mask keeps slipping. And nobody in Democratic leadership seems eager to grab it and put it back on. A new compilation from Canary Mission caught Democratic Socialists of America members, DSA-backed candidates, and assorted far-left commentators talking about where they want to take the party. The clips aren’t ambiguous. They’re plans. DSA activist and streamer Michael Beyer put it plain: “The Democratic Party establishment that we have has to be ripped out,” he said on a panel. Then he went further: “We can actually start to grab hold of the ship of state and steer it our direction, but

Too Moderate for Maoists: AOC’s 2028 Problem From the Left

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The most radical socialists in America just told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez she’s not one of them anymore. The DSA’s Liberation Caucus — a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist faction inside the Democratic Socialists of America — put out a statement this week that reads less like a press release and more like an excommunication. AOC, they said, has engaged in a “continued retreat from socialist politics.” They will not, they wrote, hand her the “presidential standard-bearer” mantle for the movement. The charge sheet: she voted to affirm Israel’s right to exist. She joined House Democrats defending Israel’s right to a defense system, after voting against

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