🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Social Media Instagram Version The attention economy just entered its product liability era. The European Commission has preliminarily found Meta in breach of European law over the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook. The investigation targets features we barely notice anymore: Infinite scroll. Autoplay. Push notifications. Highly personalized recommendations. For years, these were called engagement tools. Europe is now examining them as systems that may encourage compulsive use and harm mental and physical wellbeing, especially among young people. That changes everything. The debate is no longer only about harmful content. It is about the machinery delivering it. Not just what appears in the feed. Why the feed never ends. The Commission also says Meta’s current protections are not enough. Time limits can be dismissed. Parental controls can be complicated. Safety tools do little if the core product is still engineered to keep people watchi...